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Re: netsacape running wild



on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:12:38PM -0700, Nathan Saper (natedog@well.com) wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:28:40AM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 01:52:10PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > > I just left my machine with some open navigator 4.76 windows. When I came
> > > back 3 hours later the machine was swapping like crazy. I checked what was
> > > going on and found that netscape with four open windows took 120MB memory
> > > which seems ridiculous high.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else experiencing the same?
> > > 
> > yes and i am very upset of this crap. netscape is big, slow and crashes
> > too often. still i don't see iother every-day-runnable alternatives. sob...
> 
> w3m is really quite good, if you don't mind not having images.

I'm finding that the combination of w3m and screen *rocks*.  Multiple
browser windows with a C-c-n, fast, light, stable.  Mutt's right there
too.  Faster than spawning a new terminal window.

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