[TheForge] OT- spyware prevention

Steve Smith [email protected]
Wed May 14 08:58:00 2003


Andrew Vida wrote:

> 	Beware of Mozilla.  It is an ENORMOUS memory hog.  I have a
> 	512M core on this machine and I have watched Mozilla 1.x
> 	blow up to over 200M in size.  A typical 128M machine will
> 	be paging wildly when Mo hits perhaps 60M to 70M and that
> 	will be SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW.  It's really so very
> 	annoying to sit before a machine that is crawling along
> 	like a wounded garden slug.

This is true. They're working on making this a lot smaller.

Good to have you back, Andy. Or maybe you've been here for awhile and 
I've been asleep.

Steve