Re: " potato web browsers" + Opera, Mozilla/Netscrape
> > mozilla seems slow, konq i havent had much experience with,
>
> It's almost unusable here, but I attributed that to the machine -- on a
> Pentium Classic 166MHz, _everything's_ slow, even with 96MB. ;) Once I
As I said before, I'm with a Pentium 100, 32MB, Opera 6, WindowMaker, a
tweaked kernel and broadband. It is actually quite fast. Here are some
benchmarking, maybe it is useful for other poor students with old computers...
Conditions:
* network seems fast right now
* chaches were cleaned
* "default homepages" are blank
* using mutt and vim to write this mail, memory usage: 9%, cpu: 5%
* times are not exact
______________________________________________________
|Time to | Opera | Netscape 4.7 | Konqueror|
|______________________________________________________|
|start | '28 | '27 | 1'03 |
|------------------------------------------------------|
|new window | > 1 | '2 | '11 |
|------------------------------------------------------|
|render google| '17 | '22 | '42 |
|from the web | | | |
|------------------------------------------------------|
|slashdot | '30 | '29 | '28 |
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Notes:
* netscape crashed during the test :)
* konqueror is slow to start because I don't use KDE
Now redoing the last two operations, without cache cleaning:
______________________________________________________
| google | '11 | '13 | '05 |
|------------------------------------------------------|
| slashdot | '12 | '14 | '12 |
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I'd like to point that:
* Netscape is not so slow as some people say, but indeed it is buggy and
has bad support for w3c standarts
* Without dealing with the Web, Opera is the fastest program, and
Konqueror the slowest
* Konqueror is the fastest to load pages already in cache
* Opera eats all the memory, I can't even move the mouse during page
rendering
* Both Konqueror and Netscape menus and configuration dialogs are very
slow in this machine
--
Leonardo Boiko
"Doko ni datte, hito wa tsunagatte iru."
(No matter where, people are all connected)
-Lain
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