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. > Icedove likes to make my computer behave like a 386 (downloading and > indexing millions of IMAP messages.. heck, it's _why_ I use IMAP :/). Icedove 3.x has an option to tell do not index e-mails. Not sure how it goes because I'm still with 2.x branch. > I now have chromium and claws at my beck and call. Man.. are they ever > fast. > > Just thought I'd make some noise and share, I feel so free. \o/ Lucky you that can make that change :-) I have to stick with Icedove because is one of the two MUAs I know that can handle html e-mails in Linux. The second is Evolution, but I think is even slower than Icedove. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.19.08.03...@gmail.com
