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On 5 Mar, Stephen Boulet wrote:
> Jason Helfman wrote:
>
>> When will a competative browser that can hold a candle and then some up
>> to netscape, be offered in Linux.
>>
>> Netscape is using 37.5 % of my cpu!!!
>
> This sometimes happens to me. If you kill it and restart it, it's back to a
> more reasonable level, but I don't leave it running all the time for fear that
> it gets into this cpu-hungry state.
I have seen netscape crash X and hard hang the underlying Linux box on
several occasions. More often it just hoses X and a remote login and
"init 3" followed by an "init 5" will restore the GUI (perhaps
accompanied by "kill -9 <netscape-pids>).
I am generally not a KDE advocate (I'm a Gnome user, personally) but
their browser, konqueror, really is IMHO the best web browser there is
for Linux, bar none. Java works (with Sun or IBM's JRE), javascript
works, netscape plugins work, SSL works (strong encryptions). In short,
it does everything netscape does and then some, without the instability
and propensity for crashing an otherwise rock solid system. I resent
programs which make Linux behave like windows, and unfortunately
Netscape is in that class of applications.
>
> Question: how much memory does mozilla use for you folks?
I tried the nightly build a couple of weeks ago. Mozilla has come a
long way and is looking better all the time, but it isn't quite there
yet as a viable replacement for Netscape (at least not for me, but then
I use konqueror, and formerly used netscape, to do everything from
casual browsing to on-line shopping, on-line banking, and even on-line
trading). In a few months, once Mozilla is finished, we will have a
plethora of very cool browsers to choose from (Galeon, Nautilus, Mozilla
itself, etc. in addition to Konqueror and perhaps even a new version of
Netscape), but if you're looking for something to replace netscape with
right now konqueror is the only thing I've found to date that fits the
bill. As a Gnome user I look forward to the day soon when that is no
longer the case, and our choices are broadened.
WRT memory and CPU usage:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
jean 16960 33.2 4.9 36548 25312 ttyp4 R 13:17 0:05 ./mozilla-bin
jean 16962 0.1 4.9 36548 25312 ttyp4 S 13:17 0:00 ./mozilla-bin
jean 16963 0.3 4.9 36548 25312 ttyp4 S 13:17 0:00 ./mozilla-bin
and, for completeness:
jean 16757 0.1 3.3 25416 17124 ? S 11:11 0:13 /usr/bin/konqueror
Mozilla and konqueror are only displaying one visible window for
browsing, and both are displaying my homepage (which includes a cheesy
java applet displaying a "metric clock" to test their java
capabilities).
hope this helps,
Jean.
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