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Article #57112Re: Speed of netscape 3.0
From: Dave Fitch
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 00:00
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. -- __________________________________________________________________________ | . | | _--_|\ Rev. David Fitch | | / \ darius@matra.com.au http://www.matra.com.au/~darius | | \_.--._/ "I am minuspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused | | v you such perricabobulations". E Blackadder to Samuel Johnson | |_________________________________________________________________________|
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,d1469ffcda8ea989 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: david@die.spammers.au (Dave Fitch) Subject: Re: Speed of netscape 3.0 Date: 1996/11/10 Message-ID: <E0oEIv.2Bn@syd.csa.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 195731641 distribution: aus sender: news@syd.csa.com.au x-nntp-posting-host: dev36 references: <32822C86.3C8DDE50@golden.wattle.id.au> organization: Not Really reply-to: david@die.spammers.au newsgroups: aus.computers.linux