Why porting Mozilla to Amiga??

[gary_c]

Whereas, mozilla has its own code to do that... Thats why it takes so long.

On my 850MHz Duron notebook, it takes just 10 seconds to start up Phoenix (now Firebird) and display my homepage (fetched from remote server via DSL). That's not too shabby, I'd say. Even with IE's being partly loaded already, it takes 9 seconds just to open and display an empty window on the same machine. (I don't use it enough to have a home page set.) And Phoenix's memory footprint is considerably smaller than Opera's, not that that should be a problem for anybody getting an AmigaOne or Pegasos. Like others have said, Firebird is much smaller than the full Mozilla and is quite fast.

-- gary_c

[gary_c]

KennyR wrote:

Ten seconds is an age, especially when you're just clicking on something on IRC for general interest. My system boots faster than that. IMO a browser taken 10 seconds to load on a UDMA drive with a 850MHz CPU powering it is unforgivable for "just" a browser.

Well, I guess maybe my perception has become skewed. I've been using mainly Windows for a couple of years now and in that context the load time seems pretty good. Other apps, like graphic editors, Dreamweaver, OpenOffice.org and even Eudora take quite a bit longer.But I generally just open them once and they're up all day, so load time isn't really that big an issue for me.

I guess my definition of slow is just different from all the Linux and Windows users in here. How you have the patience for it all I can't guess. Even my 040/25 felt a sharper machine to use.

When I was using BeOS almost all the time I would've had a different reaction, too. (BeOS doesn't even have a busy pointer.) Now, as soon as my ram arrives I'll get my Pegasos up and readjust my load time concepts. :-)

-- gary_c