Nick Holland [[email protected]] wrote: > > get a faster processor and more memory. > I don't care what you have...you need a faster processor and more memory > for modern browsers. > > When the browser claims it is 10% faster than before, that's on a > processor that's twice as fast. That's a cynical exaggeration, but not > as big an exaggeration as I wish it was. >
Well JIT was disabled on Firefox, but even before that happened, something has made firefox glacially slow on all of my workstations. > I'm really stunned at how much processor memory the modern browser > leaks, considering we once used browsers on 486s with 16M RAM. > Probably Moasic, Netscape would have been too slow with Javascript support to do anything useful...Kind of like firefox today (and thousands of MHz later) Chris
