Thanks, everyone, for all the help. I checked the memory use (using "free") with Mozilla and a few other programs running. Memory use never went much above 85MB out of a total of about 250) , so I don't have to increase the swap partition, at least for now. And I will try removing unnecessary software with dselect. I was hesitant to do this. I guess I still have a "Windows" mindset because so often I was unable to uninstall things cleanly. I would always end up reloading the operating system. I got used to doing this several times a year.
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Mozilla is still a bit slow on my Pentium 200, so I'll try Galeon and other browsers. The worst of it is typing. I'm using Mozilla to compose this email and although I'm not an extremely fast typist I'm finding that my keystrokes get ahead of the program's ability to display the letters. Very disconcerting! I end up making lots of mistakes! I'll have to check out other email programs as well.Thanks, Peter Christensen
I have a P133 with 80MB RAM. I wouldn't even think about using Mozilla. Opera is a nice lightweight browser and I sometimes use konqueror to browse (but I don't use KDE). For emailing I strongly (and a lot of people on this list will agree) recommend exim/fetchmail/(procmailif you ned to)/mutt. It is diffenrent to use but after a while you'll get used to it. Configuration of my mail system was very easy, the Debian installation did configure exim very well. All I had to do was to configure fetchmail with fetchmailconfig. If your look for a graphica MUA try kmail or balsa.
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