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Re: Speed of netscape 3.0

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From: Dave Fitch
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 00:00
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Mike Holland <news@golden.wattle.id.au> writes:
>	To use X-windows with low memory, look at all your programs.
>Get a small terminal emulator ( NOT xterm! ) and a small window manager,
>like an old fvwm, before it got feature-bloated.
>I thought there was a tiny-X HOWTO, but cant find it.
>Seriously consider using lynx instead of netscape where possible.
>Then you'll get good performance.

I'll have a look for that howto.  I'm back to netscape 2.0 now
and it's better already I reckon.  Maybe I'll try back to 1.2 too.

>Cant say. i switched computers at the same time. with 32 MB it has
>finally stopped swapping lots. The modem is the bottleneck.

Jeez, it must be pretty inefficient software!

>BTW, fake reply addresses are almost as annoying as spam email.

Not to me!

Dave.
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