On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 21:37, Dan Serban <[email protected]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
