> > mozilla seems slow, konq i havent had much experience with, > > It's almost unusable here, but I attributed that to the machine -- on a > Pentium Classic 166MHz, _everything's_ slow, even with 96MB. ;) Once I As I said before, I'm with a Pentium 100, 32MB, Opera 6, WindowMaker, a tweaked kernel and broadband. It is actually quite fast. Here are some benchmarking, maybe it is useful for other poor students with old computers...
Conditions: * network seems fast right now * chaches were cleaned * "default homepages" are blank * using mutt and vim to write this mail, memory usage: 9%, cpu: 5% * times are not exact ______________________________________________________ |Time to | Opera | Netscape 4.7 | Konqueror| |______________________________________________________| |start | '28 | '27 | 1'03 | |------------------------------------------------------| |new window | > 1 | '2 | '11 | |------------------------------------------------------| |render google| '17 | '22 | '42 | |from the web | | | | |------------------------------------------------------| |slashdot | '30 | '29 | '28 | ------------------------------------------------------ Notes: * netscape crashed during the test :) * konqueror is slow to start because I don't use KDE Now redoing the last two operations, without cache cleaning: ______________________________________________________ | google | '11 | '13 | '05 | |------------------------------------------------------| | slashdot | '12 | '14 | '12 | ------------------------------------------------------ I'd like to point that: * Netscape is not so slow as some people say, but indeed it is buggy and has bad support for w3c standarts * Without dealing with the Web, Opera is the fastest program, and Konqueror the slowest * Konqueror is the fastest to load pages already in cache * Opera eats all the memory, I can't even move the mouse during page rendering * Both Konqueror and Netscape menus and configuration dialogs are very slow in this machine -- Leonardo Boiko "Doko ni datte, hito wa tsunagatte iru." (No matter where, people are all connected) -Lain