[Gllug] galeon rocks

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Sat Aug 18 14:10:35 UTC 2001


On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Ian Norton gibbered:
> bolatware is generally associated with huge slow proggies. (office etc)
> bloatware concernes me when i have not much ram, 
> 
> i would consider galeon to be 'largeware' as it seems to be nimble enough to
> carry around its mass.

Like Mozilla (hell, *because* of Mozilla), it's bloated. If you have
less than 48Mb of RAM it's unusably slow.

A web browser shouldn't need that much memory all to itself.

-- 
`It's all about bossing computers around. Users have to say "please".
Programmers get to say "do what I want NOW or the hard disk gets it".'
                        -- Richard Heathfield on the nature of programming

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