Re: Woody Impressions

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Re Netscape->Mozilla, just one warning to Netscape Mail users:

[snippage]

> So Mozilla is not at all beta quality, rumors to the contrary
> notwithstanding.  RedHat will someday replace Netscape 4.x with it, but

I'm sorry, what did you say?  Who is `RedHat'?  And why should we
care what he says?  Sounds like a fashion emergency anyway.

But seriously, about the memory hogness.  Mostly due to caching in
memory, no?  Which explains some of its "fast" rendering.

The one design feature that they really needed in all this, but
punted, was the ability to partition the thing into separate
modules, which can be dynamically  and automatically loaded and
unloaded as needed, saving memory and sanity.  Kinda like solaris. 
Mozilla is the wrong answer to the question everyone asked: can we
build something better than Netscape but also that isn't such a
resource hog -- unless you want it to be?  Sigh.

a