On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:36:54PM -0800, nate wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > > > any suggestions? for both console based as well as gui based browsers are > > welcome. > > > I'm sure you'll hear a lot about phoenix. I use it, it works well, loads > pretty fast. Opera still blows it away in startup time, though opera isn't > as standards compliant(v6 anyways). Both opera and phoenix though seem to > have massive memory leaks, I haven't been able to track down what triggers > them but sometimes I come to my machine and see either of them(they are both > loaded 24/7 on my main machine) using up to 400MB of memory. Opera is > especially buggy on SSL sites.
Netscape 4.x in windoze has an unpleasant habit of requesting 400MB of memory about 90% through loading certain web pages. Windoze being what it is, this involves 400MB of disk transfers to the swap file. It may be endemic in mozilla-based browsers. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
