From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"RobertB"  wrote in message
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> In article ,
> Rich Gauszka  wrote:
>
>> RobertB wrote:
>> > In article ,
>> >  "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:
>> >
>> >> "Frank Haber" 
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>> >> 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).

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