Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?
Ed Mullen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.windows |
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| Organization | Another Netscape Collabra Server User |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Daniel Wagner wrote: > Ed Mullen wrote: > >> As for me, I prefer the Suite and the integration. I rarely use the > > > Of course, there are very good reasons to use the suite. Nevertheless, > I believe the OP is asking what the good reasons to use FF/TB are; as > you say in another post, let's not have a lot of "clutter". > >> The footprint of the Suite and the FF/TB combo is not all that >> different. The memory footprint difference, likewise, is not not >> large and, in my opinion, not terribly significant on a modern system >> with a large hard drive and (the typical) 512 Mb of RAM. > > > I have a different opinion; a fresh install of an FF/TB combo has half > the hard-drive "footprint". Moreover, despite being on a 2.8Ghz > processor and using Mozilla's "Quick Load" feature, there is a > significant (read: noticeable to the unaided eye and confirmed with a > stopwatch) speed difference in starting a Mozilla browser and starting > Firefox. Of course, this issue may have been addressed; I did this > little experiment nearly a year ago now... > > > To each his own. > > Exactly. I totally agree. > > ~d My installs: Moz Suite program folders: 22.2 Mb Firefox program folders: 16.7 Mb Thunderbird program folders: 19.4 Mb FF and TB are default installs other than my email and newsgroup accounts which are identical to the Suite. You are invited to do the math. Which, I submit, in any case, is totally insignificant given today's state-of-the-art system configurations. If the diff in load time measured by a stopwatch is that critical to you, we're on a different page for sure! ;-) If I really watch closely, yeah, I might admit to a "noticeable" visual load time diff. Hey, if I can't do anything with that small amount of time it just isn't significant to me. By the way, the true test is: - measure Suite load time with preference set to open both Navigator and Mail - measure combinde time to load FF AND TB Compare. Not measuring anything comparable doing the Suite and just FF or just TB. Heck, that's the point of splitting the functions into two apps! :-D -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net http://edmullen.net/moz.html