[wplug] Firefox is too bloated (bookmark insanity)

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Nov 11, 2007 2:17 AM, Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Speaking anecdotally I've observed Firefox to run slower and slower
> with each new release! Not only does it eat up insane amounts of
> physical memory but I regularly see in htop it spiking my CPU to 100%
> utilization. I'm using iceweasel which is a debianized installation of
> firefox and I'm seriously thinking about looking for a new browser.
> Can anyone recommend a Linux browser which meets the following
> requirements:
>
> * support window tabs
> * full CSS2 and earlier support
> * good flash support
> * conforms to W3C standards as closely as possible
> * does not hog the memory or cpu (lighter footprint the better!)

Konqueror, as far as I know, fits all of those.  Due to sharing KHTML
with Safari, it *should* also support parts of the CSS3 draft (unless
some of those patches haven't been merged in yet).  KHTML renders
better than Gecko.  Speaking of which...anyone know a GTK+ browser
that uses KHTML?

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