hmm, on Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 09:26:24PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter said that
> For me it feels a little bit less slow and not more memory hungry than
> ff2 always was (ff2 was/is a beast and on my a bit slower home box I
> began moving over to konqueror again, which is fast even though I don't
> use kde otherwise - even faster than ff3 on my faster work box).
on my eeepc ff3 doesnt feel much faster but it sure plugs numerous
memory leaks over ff2. but it's slooow, especially with js sites
like gmail.
but get this. if you have a slow (like the eee) machine, why not
give opera a try? yes, even in linux emulation it beats ff{2,3}
hands down absolutely. it takes a bit of using to, but actually
it is much better than ff in many respects. i often hear the plugin
argument against, but if one doesn't want really esoteric stuff, it's
a breeze: e.g. i copied the adblock list into .opera/urlfilter.ini
and it's the same. (but i did a fair amount of web development so
firebug is the only thing i keep firefox for still around.)
and get this: opera in openbsd's linux emulation is more stable than
the linux version i used on the eeepc. i never needed to kill it
on openbsd, on linux the pluginwrapper chokes all the time. it's crazy.
opera is just miles away from firefox. at least now it is.
-f
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madam i'm adam.
