The status of the subscription experiment [LWN.net]

The status of the subscription experiment

Posted Oct 3, 2002 5:04 UTC (Thu) by mwh63 (guest, #321)
In reply to: The status of the subscription experiment by rjamestaylor
Parent article: The status of the subscription experiment

My setup is similar (IE 6 on Windows XP Pro and NT 4.0 SP6)
and I am seeing the same problems described by rjamestaylor.

I use Windows _by choice_ on the desktop because I don't
find Linux quite there yet (gosh, bet you've never heard
that before). And I use IE instead of Mozilla because on
my creaky old 233 MHz K6-2 Mozilla takes an eon or two to
start up while IE pops up in under two seconds.

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Posted Oct 3, 2002 16:19 UTC (Thu) by dbreakey (guest, #1381) [Link]

Enable the QuickStart option; IE only pops up that quickly because Windows 'pre-loads' it in the background during startup.

If you want a quick option under Linux, try Galeon. I use it routinely on an AMD K6-2 200Mhz (now a Pentium 233 MMX) and it launches and runs noticeably faster than Mozilla. There's also a 'quickstart' option available for Galeon, where it loads an instance to act as a 'server' for subsequent instances--this dramatically speeds things up, if you can spare the memory (I think it's the -s option, but I can't remember offhand).

If you need a Windows solution, try K-Meleon; this wraps a Windows interface around the Gecko engine (same that Galeon does for Linux). I have no idea how well it works though, since I'm using a 600Mhz P-III, so have no problem running Mozilla on Windows.