Re: Why do they choose to require that much ressoures?

2000-12-12 Thread Sebastian Späth
Ian Davey wrote: > I think that's the default behaviour of the java plugin, to load on start-up. > I'm not sure if that's configurable or not. It would make sense to have the > option to only load it when hitting a java page (like in NS4). There are other > java plugins you could try in place of t

Re: Why do they choose to require that much ressoures?

2000-12-12 Thread Ian Davey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, like I said - it just started bringing up Java by itself whenever >I start the browser. Although I don't typically visit Java sites, I >don't want to turn off Java completely via the Preferences - in case I >just happe

Re: Why do they choose to require that much ressoures?

2000-12-11 Thread Thomas Wolf
Ian Davey wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >> The Mozilla nightlies are getting more resource hungry rather than >> less, it seems :-( After yesterday's download, I discovered with some >> dismay that it's already using 29Megs - without me havi

Re: Why do they choose to require that much ressoures?

2000-12-08 Thread Ian Davey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The Mozilla nightlies are getting more resource hungry rather than >less, it seems :-( After yesterday's download, I discovered with some >dismay that it's already using 29Megs - without me having visited ANY >pages (orthe

Re: Why do they choose to require that much ressoures?

2000-12-08 Thread Ian Davey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The Mozilla nightlies are getting more resource hungry rather than >less, it seems :-( After yesterday's download, I discovered with some >dismay that it's already using 29Megs - without me having visited ANY Just to clarif

Re: Why do they choose to require that much ressoures?

2000-12-08 Thread Thomas Wolf
Ian Davey wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, kris ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On my 64meg RAM, 400MHz Laptop, Mozilla is not usable, much patience >> is needed when working with it, especially if other applics are open. > > > I'm quite suprised at this, as I'm using it right now on

Re: Why do they choose to require that much ressoures?

2000-12-08 Thread Sebastian Späth
kris wrote: > I hope that someone skilled will write a normal lean GUI aound gecko > one day. Is this realistic? Well, you might want to look at http://kmeleon.org (for Windows). the latest release is build upon M18, I tuned it to the newest nightly build and *this* became me new default browser

Re: Why do they choose to require that much ressoures?

2000-12-08 Thread Ian Davey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, kris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On my 64meg RAM, 400MHz Laptop, Mozilla is not usable, much patience >is needed when working with it, especially if other applics are open. I'm quite suprised at this, as I'm using it right now on a 233MHz 64MB desktop machine and

Why do they choose to require that much ressoures?

2000-12-08 Thread kris
As much I like the functionality of the browser, i ask myself why the development team has choosen a design that needs that much \ ressources. In my understanding it is a contradiction to have a fast and nice Gecko rendering engine, and a horribly heavy GUI around it. I don't know about the inter