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A grumpy user's browser review

A grumpy user's browser review

Posted Feb 11, 2004 21:32 UTC (Wed) by dkite (guest, #4577)
In reply to: A grumpy user's browser review by tjc
Parent article: A grumpy user's browser review

I tried the rendering speed test as above, and had to recheck the
numbers. 6.5 and 5.7 seconds? Huh? My konqueror, on a 2000 athlon took 3
seconds.

I think I'll put up with the rest of KDE (which is quite good BTW) to
enjoy these speeds.

Derek


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A grumpy user's browser review

Posted Feb 11, 2004 22:40 UTC (Wed) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]

As I'm sure everyone will realize, comparing your numbers to Mr. Grumpy's numbers is useless. You have no idea what kind of system he has, how much memory, his internet access methods, etc. etc. For it to be informative you have to perform all the timing tests on the same system.

A grumpy user's browser review

Posted Feb 11, 2004 23:10 UTC (Wed) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

My konqueror, on a 2000 athlon took 3 seconds.

Reboot and try again.

Firefox takes ~11 seconds to start the first time on my system, and about 3 seconds on subsequent restarts in the same session.

A grumpy user's browser review

Posted Feb 11, 2004 23:44 UTC (Wed) by xorbe (guest, #3165) [Link]

No need to reboot, run a program that sucks down all your ram and a little swap space too. Then try again.

A grumpy user's browser review

Posted Feb 11, 2004 23:56 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

On my Athlon 2100+:

FireFox: 1.3 sec

Konqueror: 1.5 sec

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