Re: Mozilla on sparc
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:51:20PM +0200, Janine Restis wrote:
> 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.
By any chance weren't you using XFree 3.3.x previously and now XFree86 4.x
on cg6? That card is not accelerated in XF4 yet.
Jakub
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