Re: Frustration made me do it.
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:03:44 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:37:32 -0800, Dan Serban 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
> >
> > 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.
>
> Mozilla products are memory/CPU hogs, yes. I hope newer versions can
> correct that.
I often wonder about this; IIRC, FF used to advertise itself as
"lightweight". Does it still do that? Was it ever accurate?
Celejar
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