Don't you find the conventionally used : firefox/opera/iceape a bit sluggish ?
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Don't you find the conventionally used : firefox/opera/iceape a bit sluggish ?
Hello,
I have the feeling that the more it goes the slower is our web surfing applications for Linux. Aren't you in the same meaning? It's certainly not a matter of kernel.
Regarding the versions :
example Firefox/Iceape >2.x
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Don't you find the conventionally used : firefox/opera/iceape a bit sluggish ?
No, and I use a motherboard and CPU I purchased on 9/11.
Exactly... Mine is also an '01 model: PIII/733MHz w/384M RAM.
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Originally posted by crashmeister
But I have to agree that firefox became a joke.
How did Firefox become a joke?
I switched from IE to Netscape Navigator (a Mozilla derivative) in 2003, then to Firefox in 2005 while I was still using Windows. I've found FF to be much faster with Linux than with Windows, and faster yet with KDE than with Gnome on Ubuntu.
No, I do not see Firefox as slow; in fact, it has proven itself much faster than most other browsers I've tried, especially on KDE/Linux. You might, however, look into Flock, which although it is based heavily on Firefox, the latest version is optimized for speed.
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