Re: Frustration made me do it.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 21:37, Dan Serban <dserban@lodgingcompany.com> wrote:
> After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't
> refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?) and begrudgingly moving to
> Firefox, then falling in love with iceweasel. Today, sad as it is,
> is when I feel that I must announce that I decided to:
>
> # aptitude purge iceweasel icedove
They are too old anyway. I may dislike the Foundation, but the only
way to go is straight from the source, preferably the Nightlies.
> I will spare you the minute details for my decision, but I
> assume most of you experience the same frustrations I do. The
> increasing bloat, the never enough memory (16gb real, 32gb swap) being
> happily claimed by a single tab and xul-runner eating it all.
I use Mozilla and FF with 4GB memory, and everything is fine (although
I don't run a DE). I could use a little more memory, but only because I
developed the bad habit of running 2 browsers often with a total of over
200 tabs.
> Icedove likes to make my computer behave like a 386 (downloading
> and indexing millions of IMAP messages.. heck, it's _why_ I use IMAP
> :/).
Haven't switched to IMAP yet, still on Gmail at this point.
> I now have chromium and claws at my beck and call. Man.. are they
> ever fast.
Chrome/Chromium invariably fill me with rage. How can a UI be that
bad?
> Just thought I'd make some noise and share, I feel so free. \o/
'K
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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