Re: Netscape 6.2
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> writes:
> On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 12:37, Christoph Simon wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:55:12 -0600
> > Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > <SIGH/> All browsers suck. Konqueror on my woody box is incapable
> > > of displaying GIF89a's, Netscape 6.x has problems displaying some
> > > CSS + tables pages (as in "some parts of the page are simply not
> > > there"). Anything derived from mozilla is a horrible memory hog
> > > (when used with another memory hog -- Forte -- they can easily
> > > bring your box down to its knees), and Netscape 4.x leaves behind
> > > runaway processes that have to be tracked down and killed every
> > > week or so -- otherwise the box becomes unusable...
> > > Is there IE for Linux?
>
> Mozilla has been a memory hog. But, there was a really great bugfix
> lately. The problem was that, when opening and closing new windows,
> Mozilla was leaking basically the entire contents of that window. Those
> of us who browse using a lot of windows were getting killed by this
> bug. Now that it is fixed, Mozilla's memory consumption stabilizes
> after startup.
>
The recent tab-browsing feature also helps a lot in this respect. I'd
been forcing myself to have no more than 2 windows open until tabs
appeared in the nightlies and now I regularly have up to 5 tabs open,
usually without a significant increase in memory usage (although there
still appear to be some memory leaks that'll show over a long period of
time).
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