Re: Mozilla M18 on potato (pentium100)

[Hubert Chan <hackerhue@crosswinds.net>]

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@umich.edu> writes:

> I've run those "i686" binaries on a P150 and they work.  They're much too
> slow to be usable, though that may be the fault of the memory (32 megs)
> and not the processor--Mozilla seemed to be spending a lot of time
> swapping the one time I tried it.  On my other machine, a 300mmx with 64
> megs, I find M18 is actually usable.---Bruce F.

I'd recommend using the nightly builds.  They seem to be quite a bit faster
than the milestone releases.  I've got 32 megs on my machine, too, and it seems
to be swapping a lot less now than previous releases.  It's still a bit slower
than, say Netscape 4.7, but I've found it to be fairly usable.

Hubert