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to: Randall Parker
from: John Beamish
date: 2006-07-22 18:10:20
subject: Re: Change font size in Firefox to test its speed

From: "John Beamish" 

Yes.  No.  I suppose I could ... ok, I will ... standby for a later report.

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:38:27 -0400, Randall Parker

wrote:

> Are you referring to this web page?
> http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/cat_energy_tech.html
>
> Do you also have FireFox on that computer?
>
> I'm downloading Opera right now..
>
>
> 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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