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Re: hey ms windows folks
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Date: 
Fri, 25 Aug 2000 15:21:13 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDMnomorespam.ORG
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
It's about 10 seconds to launch K-Meleon.  That's after I've launched and
relaunched a few times, so most of the files should be in the disk-cache.

Huh. How long does NS4 take, for comparison? (IE of course cheats, by
loading a bunch of itself at system startup time. One of the advantages
(all other concerns aside) of tight OS integration.)


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Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: hey ms windows folks
 
I just tried a Mozilla nightly (not K-meleon, which doesn't currently work with Win95) on my PPro 180 system (the Linux numbers were from my PIII 450 at work) and it took 12 seconds to load. (Communicator 4.75 takes 4.) If K-meleon isn't much better (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: hey ms windows folks
 
(...) Dunno. Don't have NS installed, currently. If I remember, I'll snarf it and check. Steve (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: hey ms windows folks
 
(...) It's about 10 seconds to launch K-Meleon. That's after I've launched and relaunched a few times, so most of the files should be in the disk-cache. I've got a tempermental Gateway e-4200. That's a PII 400MHz, with 128MB RAM. Typical hard-drive. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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