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Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine



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On 09/26/2004 01:02 PM, Carl Fink wrote:

> If you're going to use GNOME products like Firefox, don't mix them with KDE
> products.  You end up needing BOTH sets of libraries, meaning INCREDIBLE
> amounts of swapping.

Firefox is not a GNOME App, its a standalone application compiled
against GTK2.

> I'd recommend trying Epiphany vs. Firefox.  Most of the features, and
> lighter.  I have little experience with graphical mailers because mutt does
> everything I need and it's lightning-fast.

Epiphany is a GNOME app and needs all gnome stuff loaded -> a lot of
swapping.

lg, clemens

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