[geeks] WTF - Linux on a laptop...

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:18:02PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> I'm running RH Linux 8 on a PII laptop, and with *only* 256 Meg of RAM,
> the Mozilla browser seems to use about 110% of available RAM... WTF is
> this thing doing with all that RAM?
> Any pointers to a more parsimonious browser for x86 linux? I can't add
> more RAM, though I'd like to (this tecra 8000 only supports 256 Meg
> total - it's a four year old laptop)...

Try FireFox instead of Mozilla.  Much less bloat.

My desktop "workstation" at the office is a 1Ghz machine (previously a
P3-733) with 256M and it works fine.

Bill

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bill bradford
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