Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:36:54PM -0800, nate wrote:
> Sandip P Deshmukh said:
> >
> > any suggestions? for both console based as well as gui based browsers are
> > welcome.
>
>
> I'm sure you'll hear a lot about phoenix. I use it, it works well, loads
> pretty fast. Opera still blows it away in startup time, though opera isn't
> as standards compliant(v6 anyways). Both opera and phoenix though seem to
> have massive memory leaks, I haven't been able to track down what triggers
> them but sometimes I come to my machine and see either of them(they are both
> loaded 24/7 on my main machine) using up to 400MB of memory. Opera is
> especially buggy on SSL sites.
Netscape 4.x in windoze has an unpleasant habit of requesting 400MB of
memory about 90% through loading certain web pages. Windoze being what
it is, this involves 400MB of disk transfers to the swap file. It may
be endemic in mozilla-based browsers.
Pigeon
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