Re: Mozilla on sparc
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Aaron Dewell wrote:
>
> Web browsers (nowadays) are total pigs. If you have a really hot
> Ultra, it _might_ run acceptably. On a Sun4m, it's unusable, as
> you've noticed. Thank M$ and Netscape for all the bloatware that's
> ended up in there while they were assuming everyone has 1 Ghz
> processors.
>
> I'm waiting for Opera to be ported to Sparclinux before I do any
> browsing from my SS20 that doesn't involve lynx.
>
> Aaron
Sorry, I forgot to mention that it worked before. I used Mozilla (it
wasn't the fastest, but well usable), then an update crashed my X. I
lived without X for about 2 weeks or so. Then I compiled X on my own
(without problems). Since then Mozilla was slow like hell.
Janine
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