From: Rich Gauszka 

RobertB wrote:
> In article ,
>  "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:
>
>> "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
>> news:45e4808b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> I'm Wii-less, but Camino is the default browser on my iBook G4.  Firefox
>>> is really a G4 build called Bon Echo, renamed and re-resourced.  Firefox
>>> is kind of a pig on Mac, and my slow machine accentuates this.
 And on any
>>> platform, that interpreter-icode-whatever frontend just doesn't have a
>>> good feel to it, to me.  3GHZ and up P4s mask that pretty well on Win.
>>>
>>> I'm also starting to worry about FF 1.5 and FF2 forking, the internecine
>>> Open Catfigh^H^H Source development model, etc.  Nothing is perfect.
>>>
>>> (I wonder when the Gecko builds will start to outnumber the
Linux distros?
>>>
>>> (Better duck after that one.))
>> There was a recent article comparing Firefox to Safari ( the link isn't up
>> right now but it's an interesting read with graphs and all )
>>
>> http://macenstein.com/default/archives/540
>>
>> Using Safari can slow your system down as much as 76% vs Firefox
>
> The other thing is that on OSX most users of newer machines have most of
> their CPU capacity idle. Even if a system uses 100% of CPU, that's not
> abnormal. That's what it's there for -- to be used. If you can perform
> all operations normally and efficiently (whatever you're doing), using
> up all your CPU may simply mean the system is operating quite normally.
>
> By the way, when Safari is idle on my machine, it uses 0.00% of CPU. My
> newsreader (MT-NewsWatcher) (although supposedly a Universal binary) is
> a bit of a hog, however. Oh, 13% of CPU usage? For a newsreader? Typing
> text?

Typing text in Thunderbird uses about 2% CPU in Activity Monitor.

I've not tried MT-Newswatcher as the complaints about file corruption put me off.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13571

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