Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 21:45:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Queen Rusty <isis@cockatoo.aus.org> To: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.02b7 Message-ID: <XFMail.970831214746.isis@cockatoo.aus.org> In-Reply-To: <19970831222734.00424@grendel.IAEhv.nl>
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On 31-Aug-97 Peter Korsten squawked: >Kenny Hanson shared with us: >> >> [original question was whether Netscape 4.02b7 was thinned out] >> >> I'm afraid not. It comes with just about everything that installs >> with NT or 95. The .tar.gz file is 7,132,310 bytes in size (yikes!). > >Something very scary: Netscape 4.02 works pretty fine on my 16 Mb >machine with Windows 95, but is hardly useable due to the large >memory consumation with FreeBSD 2.2.2 and Xfree86. > >'Top' shows that Netscape takes some 13 Mb Mb memory (YIKES!). > >- Peter I was thrilled to see a freebsd netscape as well, but have gone back to the older unknown-bsd version ( I believe BSDi). In some cases in top the numbers were 18M/6M+ , and it was noticeably slower than the older version. I wish there was a 3.0x freebsd-netscape Luke ----- Queen Rusty <Moluccan Royalty> and her subjects: Ruckus and Zorro <U2s>, Lil Guy and Joey <tiels>, Cassidy <Jardine>, Jen and Luke <humans>, and 4 cats... http://kawaii.aus.org/~hendrix
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