Re: Status of Galeon in testing?
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:34:30 +1100,
Tim Connors <tconnors+linuxdebianuser1074850305@astro.swin.edu.au> wrote
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<[🔎] slrn-0.9.7.4-17264-15433-200401232031-tc@hexane.ssi.swin.edu.au>:
> Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> said on Thu, 22 Jan 2004
> 15:23:25 +0000:
> > On (22/01/04 09:22), stan wrote:
> > >
> > > For several weeks now, I've had to freeze all my "testing"
> > > systems, as an apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove galeon, which
> > > is a critical requirement for these systems.
> > >
> > > Can anyone enlighteen me as to what's going on with this package?
> > Sorry - I can't give you any info on Galeon other than I had a
> > problem upgrading to sid and Galeon became so broken I had to
> > reinstall. I've now switched to Mozilla-Firebird which works a
> > treat ;)
>
> Is there a browser that is acceptable for slow computers? My AMD K6II
> 500MHz box takes forever to render a page, or even to switch tabs.
..FWIW, this worked acceptably on my amd k6-2 450, I have used galeon
a year ago on RH-9 with both 128 and 384MB ram, and galeon-1.2.3 (or
1.2.5?) will run for week off a woody setup, I usually wound up with 5
or 6 screens with 2 or 3 Galeon windows with 9 to 12 tabs going in each,
all this off 384MB.
..'free' says? Check 'top', your box oughtta be a tad quicker than
mine.
> Given the galeon is using mozilla's rendering engine, and that the
> alternatives I can think of are even worse (Konqueror is KDE, so
> couldn't possibly have ever been designed to be at all resembling
> quick).
>
> Nutscap 4.7 was acceptable (hell, I would even call it fast), but
> naturally, is a little broken.
>
> Any experiences in this department, anyone?
>
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