From: "John Beamish" 

Forgot:  Dell P4, 1.70GHz, 256MB of memory.

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:33:57 -0400, John Beamish  wrote:

> Opera 9, hitting the keypad "+" key:  barely got to a count
of 2 ... and
> I immediately followed with a ctrl+end to get to the end of the page to
> make certain that they whole page was available in a larger font -- not
> just the visible text.  The jump to the end of the page was almost
> instantaneous.  The text there ws larger, too.
>
> Opera enlarges pix, too, not just text.  I don't use Firefox so I don't
> know what it does with pix.
>
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:05:51 -0400, Randall Parker
>

> wrote:
>
>> Got an easy test to compare FireFox on different machines: Load a page
>> and then use Ctrl+= and Ctrl+- to increase and decrease the text size.
>>
>> With the New York Times front page loaded on a Dell Optiplex GX240 1.8
>> Ghz P4  Linux Fedora 5 and FireFox v1.5.0.4 it takes 5 seconds to
>> increase or decrease the size of the text on the front page.
>>
>> Since the front page of the NY Times changes fairly often I figure a
>> bigger and more stable page would be a better test. Here's one of mine:
>>
>> http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/cat_energy_tech.html
>>
>> This page takes 12 seconds to become bigger when I hit Ctrl+=. Then it
>> took 11 seconds to become smaller when I hit Ctrl+-.
>>
>> Geo, you want to try your Knoppix disk with that?
>

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