Re: galeon on the alpha
> (...)
> Anyway it got pretty far into the build process, but alas, it choked and died
> on the following error message that sort of looks to me like a 32bit / 64bit
> issue. I think that galeon could become my browser of choice. It is fast
> like Opera, but it looks and operates like Mozilla/Netscape. It also has
> many neat features that make it superior.
Beware - There are many glitches caused (I think) by the 64-bitness of the
Alpha. I have never tried building it (although I know it must be
possible, as I have the binaries ;-) ), but I use it as my primary
browser. It is not, however, nearly as fast as it is on a PC. It starts
pretty good, but speed deteriorates painfully after a day of use... I
suppose it is some memory leak or something similar (maybe if you try
freeing an unaligned chunk of memory... I'm no C coder, so I can only
speculate :) )
In short... Galeon rules. It is, however, not fast. I often close it and
relaunch it two or three times a day. It takes a LOT of time to load.
If it is of any use, I have a 600MHz LX164 Alpha, 128MB RAM, and don't run
almost any Gnome stuff.
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