[plug] Are we at 'war' with Microsoft?

[Nick Bannon]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:30:12PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
[...]
> I haven't noticed it so much after upgrading to a multi-GHz machine, but
> the UI used to feel noticeably sluggish.  Things like dropping down the
> bookmarks menu (with hundreds of bookmarks in it) took a couple of
> seconds.  Likewise opening the Preferences box.

> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:10:18PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> | Nobody with the skills can be bothered, I expect.

Mozilla (and derivatives) is a big C++ program, that's used by all
sorts of people in all sorts of ways. A lot of people _have_ worked on
improving performance and memory footprint because that's always been a
sore point... I think they've had enormous success. I think it has had
the effect of pushing Mozilla towards scalability - without the benefit
of a multi-GHz machine the small jobs start slowly, but it completes
the hard jobs faster than the competition. (e.g. enormous nested
tables, the worst of the DHTML)

I do run Mozilla Firebird more or less happily on a P166 with 64MB of
RAM, with only a couple of tabs open. My 256MB desktops normally have a
couple of windows with 10-20 tabs each.

You can do 80% of the job smaller and faster, that's where Opera has
it's niche... or Konqueror/KHTML, too? 

You can do 60% of the job very quickly indeed - Dillo!

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/footprint/
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=bookmark&keywords=perf
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62907

Nick.

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