Re: small web browser
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:33:25AM -0600, lee wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> what's a good web browser that doesn't need so much memory? I have the
> same group of tabs open in each browser to compare memory useage:
>
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> lee 24253 3.0 3.7 138688 77252 tty1 Sl 01:14 0:06 iceape-bin
> lee 24234 2.0 3.3 183252 69584 pts/4 Sl+ 01:11 0:07 epiphany-browser
> lee 24302 16.1 3.8 193536 80796 pts/6 Sl+ 01:21 0:04 /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin -a iceweasel
In Lenny, iceweasel wastes much less memory (after a while) than iceape.
That is: it does not leak memory that badly.
>
>
> For some reason, firefox always defaults to iceweasel (even when
> started as /usr/bin/firefox).
Iceweasel is Firefox[tm] with the [tm] part removed :-)
The package firefox is: "Transition package for iceweasel rename" .
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