RE: << I don't care if the components of the suite run as separate processes / applications. In fact that's the only nice thing about the Tb/Fb combo - when a page in the browser is running a heavy Flash applet it doesn't freeze the other components, e.g. the Mail. >> Actually, Firefox 3.5x is mono-threaded in a few places, where it WILL stall and stop / almost stop many other processes while those inner threads are operating, thus now and then (not constantly) slowing any PC OS down -- Win, Mac, Linux -- it is these very few internal FF areas that do NOT compare as favorably as FF 3.5x could when compared to exact-same tests against Google's Chrome and the very few other Gecko and other related-or-not browser engines. It appears that FF 3.5x tabs are multi-threaded for performance, but the entirety of FF 3.5x is NOT TOTALLY as high-performance as many of us thought it could or would be.
However, it appears that these "deficiencies" will be addressed in the upcoming FF 3.6, but we must wait to be certain of that. Also, it appears that once Thunderbird 3 finally appears, parts of FF 3.5x, and possibly even SeaMonkey 2, will operate better when called upon to I/O data and background information with TBird 3. Not to take anything away from the mostly fine points of SM 2, but SM 2 has a little ways to go, hopefully mostly ironing out what we all hope would be less than major problem points for the overworked SM programmer. Joe ----- Original Message --------------- >Message: 1 >Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:47:59 +0200 >From: Stanimir Stamenkov <s7a...@netscape.net> >To: support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org >Subject: Re: Once Ya' go to FF 'n' TB, Ya' may, never go back! >Message-ID: <9uadnea7i4t-0z3wnz2dnuvz_v5i4...@mozilla.org> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:12:17 -0800, /Ant/: > >> I prefer suite products since I always use e-mails and Web browser when >> using the Internet. > >I prefer the suite as it is sharing my settings and preferences >among its components - I don't want to maintain and synchronize the >same settings among different applications the suite has as >components. That's enough for me to stick with the suite, but I >also like the more verbose SeaMonkey UI loaded with some features I >miss from Firefox - the Forms tab in the Page Info removed in >Firefox 3, for example. > >I don't care if the components of the suite run as separate >processes / applications. In fact that's the only nice thing about >the Tb/Fb combo - when a page in the browser is running a heavy >Flash applet it doesn't freeze the other components, e.g. the Mail. > Previously this could have been solved by the "profile sharing" >proposal <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla2:Profile_Sharing> but it >has been dropped and I'm looking forward the implementation of >"content processes" <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Content_Processes> >which would make the suite better than the Tb/Fb combo, I think. > >-- >Stanimir ************************************************** _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
