From: RobertB 

In article ,
 "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:

> "RobertB"  wrote in message
> news:missinglink-719FA9.18304928022007{at}news.barkto.com...
> > In article ,
> > Rich Gauszka  wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >
> > Never read about file corruption (which version) but there are some bugs
> > with the way it handles fonts (or displays them).
>
> current one in the link above  Version: 3.5.2

Yeah, I saw it. Not sure it's representative of all users, however.
Responses on Version Tracker are rather limited. OTOH, Newswatcher has
always been a little buggy.

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