From: RobertB 

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).

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