Mozilla Firebird is a resource hog

[badgolferman]

I like to play games on Yahoo and visit that site regularly. I normally use
Internet Explorer 6 with the MS virtual machine enabled. My system is W2K
Pro and am using Kerio 2.1.5 firewall.

Yahoo requires Virtual Machine or Java to play the games. I decided to use
Mozilla Firebird 0.7 and Sun Java 1.4.1_01 this time. Upon entering the
Yahoo game site before virtual machine is loaded, Mozilla was gobbling 35M
of memory usage and after Java's VM loaded it was up to 43M. By contrast IE
was 28M before VM and 30M after VM.

Granted IE loads some system files during bootup of OS, but it is noticeably
faster on the Yahoo games site for me. Whether this is due to MS VM, Sun VM
or the Yahoo website is beyond me. I know many on this forum prefer Mozilla
over the IE rendering engine but as much as I try to convert to Mozilla I am
not enamored by its standard abilities.

I do not deny it is standards compliant and has features that are superior
to IE not to mention security, but I have not experienced the most basic
necessity of a browser---speed.

 

[Tiger]

I do not deny it is standards compliant and has features that are
superior to IE not to mention security, but I have not experienced
the most basic necessity of a browser---speed.

Have you tried any of the tips listed at the help site?

 

[Robin T Cox]

I normally use
Internet Explorer 6 with the MS virtual machine enabled.

Are you aware that the MSVM is due to be discontinued?
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1405300,00.asp

You might also try:
* K-Meleon - a browser from the Mozilla stable, but IMHO a lot faster;
* Opera

Bear in mind too, that the Yahoo! site is probably designed primarily to
work with IE, not to conform to standards. There is an extension for
Firefox that may make such sites work better for you:
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#ieview

HTH

 

[Andy]

I like to play games on Yahoo and visit that site regularly. I
normally use Internet Explorer 6 with the MS virtual machine enabled.
My system is W2K Pro and am using Kerio 2.1.5 firewall.

Yahoo requires Virtual Machine or Java to play the games. I decided
to use Mozilla Firebird 0.7 and Sun Java 1.4.1_01 this time. Upon
entering the Yahoo game site before virtual machine is loaded,
Mozilla was gobbling 35M of memory usage and after Java's VM loaded
it was up to 43M. By contrast IE was 28M before VM and 30M after VM.

Granted IE loads some system files during bootup of OS, but it is
noticeably faster on the Yahoo games site for me. Whether this is
due to MS VM, Sun VM or the Yahoo website is beyond me. I know many
on this forum prefer Mozilla over the IE rendering engine but as much
as I try to convert to Mozilla I am not enamored by its standard
abilities.

I do not deny it is standards compliant and has features that are
superior to IE not to mention security, but I have not experienced
the most basic necessity of a browser---speed.

[OT] I user Mozilla and it's variants (K-Meleon, Firefox, Firebird,
Fire-at-will) and it is superior to IE in many respects (tho I'm not a
gamer) except handling the mailto: link. I understand this is a weakness in
the Moz family and probably has been there from the beginning. You have to
tweak the registry to get things to work sometimes. OK, I'll get off the
soapbox.

 

[omega]

[OT] I user Mozilla and it's variants (K-Meleon, Firefox, Firebird,
Fire-at-will) and it is superior to IE in many respects (tho I'm not a
gamer) except handling the mailto: link. I understand this is a weakness in
the Moz family and probably has been there from the beginning. You have to
tweak the registry to get things to work sometimes. OK, I'll get off the
soapbox.

I once gave myself a most unpleasant mailto bug. I'd deleted some of the
registry entries involved (deliberately, since I'm not an email user).
Either I did it incompletely in the first place, or else mail programs
added back partially, but in any case for a while (until I cleaned things
up), I was left with partial mailto-related reg keys.

The consequence was this. When running an MSIE-based browser, anytime I'd
accidently click a mailto link, it would immediately spawn fifty-two
iexplore.exe windows, with no way to stop the process. (I've forgotten the
exact figure, but the number 52 is close estimate.)

It reminded me of some of the hostile javascript code designed to do such
things deliberately. Only this one was essentially self-inflicted. I suppose
that reg config could also be filed in the tips on "evil things to do to
your cow-orker's computer."

 

[Mary Sunshine]

I like to play games on Yahoo and visit that site regularly. I normally use
Internet Explorer 6 with the MS virtual machine enabled. My system is W2K
Pro and am using Kerio 2.1.5 firewall.

Yahoo requires Virtual Machine or Java to play the games. I decided to use
Mozilla Firebird 0.7 and Sun Java 1.4.1_01 this time. Upon entering the
Yahoo game site before virtual machine is loaded, Mozilla was gobbling 35M
of memory usage and after Java's VM loaded it was up to 43M. By contrast IE
was 28M before VM and 30M after VM.

Granted IE loads some system files during bootup of OS, but it is noticeably
faster on the Yahoo games site for me. Whether this is due to MS VM, Sun VM
or the Yahoo website is beyond me. I know many on this forum prefer Mozilla
over the IE rendering engine but as much as I try to convert to Mozilla I am
not enamored by its standard abilities.

Hello,

I noticed this when I was working with a friend who plays Yahoo games
a lot.

His game was much slower using the Sun Java.

But we figured that that was because the game itself was written in
(for) M$ Java, which is different.

M.S.