Apps :: firebird

I installed firebird but when running it , it runs very slowly. I don't know if it might be due either to my internet conection or my hardware. I do have a dial up 56k conection and my machine is an old Pentium 75 133 mhz with 32 MB ram. with a linux partition of 500 MB.

juan

Other than Dillo and Links, you could try and see if installing the Opera web browser will help your browsing speed.

I have used the scripts mentioned in the post below to install Opera on a Pentium 60Mhz PC with 40MB of RAM. I don't know if it will work with only 32 MB of RAM but you are welcome to try them out and see if it works:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=2;t=90

You know, Links-Hached is really a capable browser. I often find myself using it as my first choice before Dillo and Firebird. There are curtain things I really like about it, like the way it does text search, the ability to change user agents, being able to see header info, and also the speed of switching from source to rendered html again, and it renders better than Dillo.

Dillo is by far the fastest though, it makes all other graphic browsers seem sluggish in my opinion.

Can you tell that I'm a fan of lite gui apps?

Dillo is definitely the fastest, and I use it sometimes for local file viewing, but its' renedering is quite poor, so I use Opera7.22 for online browsing. I have a 323MB 233mmx and Opera does great. It takes a few seconds to load but has good speed for browsing. Opera 5 and 6 are faster but quite buggy, although 6.12 is better. I like Opera 7 because it has good cookie management, history function and a built-in mail client. There's another small(650K) and fairly functional browser called browsex that works pretty good- better rendering than Dillo but not very configurable.

Juan, forgot to say, be sure you are using a swap file, at least 8-16MB. I use a 256MB swap partition share with my other linux distros.

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