In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>By the way, keeping performance reasonable and memory usage low doesn't
>only help people on low-end machines. It also helps those of us (MANY of
>us, I'm sure, in this developer-oriented group) who multitask heavily
>and tend to have (eg) several terminal windows, Mozilla, an MP3 player
>and a bunch of other applications open at once. Even a good
>consumer-level machine (eg 600MHz, 64 or 128Mb RAM) would struggle in
>that situation with Mozilla as it is now. What about the web developer
>who wants to test his pages on NS3, NS4, Mozilla, and IE? What about the
>person who chooses to use Outlook for mail, and also has Word and Excel
>open, while browsing with Moz?
I've got a K6-2 500MHz machine at home, and have had no problem browsing with
Mozilla whilst listening to MP3 tracks. It doesn't even effect the MP3 player,
even when using the mail client. This is under Linux though.
>Keeping memory usage and working set low is NOT just an issue for people
>with old machines.
Despite the above I'd definately agree with this. The less memory it needs the
better.
ian.
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