On 19 Jun 2003 16:39:10 -0400, Technoslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 15:14, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 8:36 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > > > > Were you using the most recent version of Mozilla released for > > > 9.1? > > > I believe it's version 1.3.1. It's working pretty well for me. > > > It's gets very extensive use throughout the entire day without any > > > trouble. > > > > At the point of install it refused to work for me at all. I removed > > it, re-installed it, and it has been absolutely fine ever since. I > > suspect a problem in the mandrake install script. > > > > Anne > > I did the same, Anne, and I found that while it works properly, its > really s-l-o-w. Slow to start up and slow to move along the Web. I was > under the impression that Galeon uses the Gecko engine of Mozilla, or > something core to it. How can it be that a Gnome app on a KDE platform > should outperform a neutral one like Mozilla? Is it my system or > something else? > > The truth is I like the pop-up control and tab feature of Galeon over > Mozilla...I think its better and more intuitive. Then there's the > better import capability over Mozilla. That one makes no sense after > how long Netscape has been competing with Internet Explorer! Still, I > do recognize that Mozilla has aspects of it that makes it a better > choice over Galeon..for one...lack of dependency on the Gnome project > architecture and the lack of interaction with KDE. There are other > reasons for my believing this. > > Any ideas why Mozilla would be so much slower? > > T
Mozilla is a bit of a reference implementation, with the web page composer, email client, exotic programmable interface and so on. Galeon is the core html engine with a lightweight interface and nothing else, so it's quicker. I read that this may change - that they'll split Mozilla into separate programs. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org
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