[wplug] Mozilla and load

[Bob Schmertz]

Kuzman Ganchev incurred the wrath of Bob on Aug 17, by saying

>I'm well aware that Mozilla is a big resource hog, but it seems to be
>a little unreasonable at this point. The debian packaged mozilla is
>very sluggish, even in general but especially when complicated pages
>are involved (e.g. mapquest). I downloaded the latest Firebird build
>(not packaged), and it feels a little faster, but not by much. An
>uptime while getting a page with some images showed load average of
>above 1.8!! 
>
>I have a few questions:
>
>Has anyone else experienced this? Did I just not notice while I was in
>school? Could it be a problem of the processor doing what the video
>card should really be doing?
>

No such problems for me... I'm running an iBook with a 700MHz G3 and 384 
MB RAM, FWIW/

>Is it normal for XFree86 to increase processor useage when Mozilla is
>running?

Don't think so -- doesn't seem that way to me, at least.

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Cheers,
Bob Schmertz