Re: Slow browsing?

["A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com>]

Ive found Linux to be faster overall, maybe because it does a lot of
caching at the OS level or maybe because of better net drivers? Ive found
that by installing a caching nameserver, it feels faster and you can use it
as a name server for other machines too.

Netscape is supposed to be slower than IE on windows, but im not sure how
true that is. I would only use Opera if it was stable enough for Linux. I
can run it under wine, but its just not the same.

A.Sajjad Zaidi


Jim Tittsler wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:23:11PM +0900, Dennis McMurchy wrote:
> >   "Yes, next time I'm browsing in Linux (still much slower than in
> > Windows, by the way)..."                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >   This makes no sense to me at all.  Could it be true?  And what would
> > the reason be?
>
> Perhaps he is really comparing Netscape 4.x on Linux to MSIE.
>
> I think MSIE "feels" faster because it can start to display a
> page and if necessary reflow[1] it as it downloads additional
> table elements... while Netscape 4.x waits until it has the
> whole table.
>
> [1] This feature worked well in MSIE 5.0, but seems broken in
> 5.5.
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