Re: CHAT: browsers

On Friday 07 February 2003 4:01 pm, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:51:57PM +0100, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > I'm planning on doing it as soon as I get Opera to work correctly with
> > my webmail (I tried to read my emails through the email client of Opera,
> > but although it manages to download the IMAP folders and the titles of
> > the mails, I can't get it to download the messages themselves :(( . So I
> > don't know if it would work there... If you have an idea how to make it
> > work, I'd be more than happy :) ).
>
> Hmm. I've never actually used any browser-integrated mail apps. I'm
> strictly a command-line freak when it comes to mail. The only exception is
> with work-related mail, which I read on Outlook just 'cos that's what my
> employer setup when I got the job, and I haven't had the time/motivation
> to replace it. (I probably will, since there has been several virus scares
> recently... most of my work is logging in to Solaris servers anyway, so
> the Windows desktop is pretty much useless to me.)
>
> > > On Linux, I find Mozilla too heavy: it seems to be painfully slow
> > > unless you're running the latest, greatest hardware.
> >
> > Well, at least I'm not the only one having this problem. Under Linux at
> > work it is just painful. It's better now that I have 512Mo of RAM
> > instead of 64, but it's still painfully slow.
>
> I have a 333MHz processor, so having more memory doesn't seem to help
> much. I've tried disabling all unnecessary functions in Mozilla to try to
> make it more tolerable, but it's just slower than a frozen elephant, so I
> gave up. I mean, I can literally see it repaint the screen when I load a
> new page. And I thought we've come out of the Motorola 6502 days
> already...
>
Try using Phoenix, it's a cut down Mozilla, designed to be lighter...