Re: [Galeon-user] Galeon: speed memory

[mike <mi...@re...>]

The memory "problem" is the same as in mozilla itself with how top
reports it. Because ozilla (and galeon because it uses mozilla) uses
threads this confuses top/gtop. So to work out memory actually being
used divide memory by number of galeon processes

> I tried today galeon-0.7.5-1 just to see if I can from Netscape
> and find somehting leaner/faster.
> 
> I'm fairly impressed with Galeon stability. It rendered fine all
> (some quite complex) page I tried, and in particular is much better
> on showing international Russian pages (it is a pain to get Netscape
> to show cyrillic on buttons and in input areas).
> The feel is a bit strange, but maybe even nice.
> 
> However, I was not impressed with neither speed, nor memory usage.
> It is definitely does nto feel faster than Netscape (although
> I'm on the fast connection, and I sometimes find it faster
> to reload page than to read from disk cache !, as a note - as I hear
> my hard drive, seems that Galeon is using it much less than Netscape)
> 
> Also, memory.  Right now on my machine Galeon occupies 24Mb, while
> Netscape-4.75 (with browser and mail composer open) - 18.5 Mb
> With time Netscape sometimes go to around 32MB, but I so Galeon
> at 34 Mb !   This is definitely not 'lean' (which, unfortunately, often
> is a problem of Gnome applications), especialy for reduced feature list.
> 
> Which means, I guess, that it is time for optimization stage !
> 
>                 Best reagrds, Dmitri Pogosyan
> 
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