Browser speed

[Rüdiger Kuhlmann <info@ruediger-kuhlmann.de>]

Hi!

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I accidently created a browser test that makes Mozilla and Galeon kringe:
The webpage in question contains ~400 hundred 12x12 pngs, from which there
are around 80 different ones, that are created by a cgi script (running on
the same computer as the browser). Here's the result:

          Opera Konqueror Netscape 4.7x Galeon Mozilla 0.9.7
Reload:    20s     23s        27s       4m 23s    4m 46s
Revisit:    1s      5s         8s          19s       23s

Revisit means typing return in the URL bar when the page was already loaded
before, i.e. the images are in cache. What does it tell us? It's a bad idea
to reload an image 300 times just because it's 300 times on the page (as you
can watch Mozilla & Galeon doing).

By the way: why is mutt now linked against slang? Because slang sucks - you
can't hve your default background wallpaper (in konsole) as background.

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