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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD
Date: 24 Nov 1996 17:48:59 -0000
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <32960C24.794BDF32@inferno.phys.tue.nl>,
Gert van der Plas <gert@inferno.phys.tue.nl> writes:
: Brian Somers wrote:
>> : The only "problem" I have is performance. I am am using 3.0 and it
>> : takes up to 2 minutes just to start up! Once it gets running, it > : Is this similiar to others? I have a 486/66 with 32 meg of memory, and
>> : two 24 meg swap spaces on two different spindles. I run a couple > Ha ! I've got a PPro200 w/ 80Mb of EDO and 400Mb swap (over four SCSI
>> drives through a 2940w) and a Hercules Graphite Terminator w/ the min
>> of 2Mb installed. Netscape takes about 20 seconds to start ! I must
:
: 8 seconds to start a 2nd netscape (not a child from the first).
: AMD133Mhz 486, 32Mb RAM, 100Mb swap, 1Gig Fireball. No problems.
: Netscape 3.01 Gold.
Yes. It seems that netscape is trying to something "smart" - like send/
receive a cookie with netscape.com. If I start it up while I'm
net-connected, it takes around 5-10 seconds. The second time it takes 1
second.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.