MozillaFiredird/WinMe?

[RagingBull]

A friend recommended Firebird as an alternative to IE.
Downloaded without ANY pluggins and opened to the Mozilla start-page and
Wooo.

My Memokit program showed it was using 10.2 Meg (Ram) without doing
anything esle.

So I closed it and opened IE to Roadrunner homepage and found only 1.5 Meg
being used.

After using both to check mail, read a few groups, etc. the differences were
still concerning..Mz 14.5,vs IE 4.9.

As I still need many pluggins yet,( flash, shockwave, media player etc) I
fear this "Bird" will be a real resource "Hog"

Anyone using Firebird/ME finding this to be true?

Thanks, Dave

 

[Wald]

A friend recommended Firebird as an alternative to IE.
Downloaded without ANY pluggins and opened to the Mozilla
start-page and Wooo.

My Memokit program showed it was using 10.2 Meg (Ram) without
doing
anything esle.

So I closed it and opened IE to Roadrunner homepage and found
only 1.5 Meg
being used.

After using both to check mail, read a few groups, etc. the
differences were still concerning..Mz 14.5,vs IE 4.9.

As I still need many pluggins yet,( flash, shockwave, media
player etc) I fear this "Bird" will be a real resource "Hog"

Anyone using Firebird/ME finding this to be true?

It's not a fair comparison. Take into account the fact that
Internet Explorer is not a stand-alone application, the majority of
its functional parts is loaded with Windows. Consequently, starting
and running IE is a matter of simply drawing a window (well, that
might be a bit oversimplified), while FireBird has to start from
scratch to load its rendering engine etcetera.

Anyway, I think an objective comparison on the memory side is hard
if not impossible to perform. But take my word for it, once you're
used to FireBird/Mozilla, you don't want anything else.

Regards,
Wald

 

[TechnoHippie]

It's not a fair comparison. Take into account the fact that
Internet Explorer is not a stand-alone application, the majority of
its functional parts is loaded with Windows. Consequently, starting
and running IE is a matter of simply drawing a window (well, that
might be a bit oversimplified), while FireBird has to start from
scratch to load its rendering engine etcetera.

Anyway, I think an objective comparison on the memory side is hard
if not impossible to perform. But take my word for it, once you're
used to FireBird/Mozilla, you don't want anything else.

Maybe, maybe not. I was hooked on Firebird but found it really slow
with Java installed. Without Java, it was pretty quick. I tried the
latest build of MyIE {with Java installed} and I like it much better
than Moz. It's faster and easier to control your browsing experience.

IMHO

Judy

 

[Exeter]

In alt.comp.freeware on Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:34:32 GMT "RagingBull"

A friend recommended Firebird as an alternative to IE.
Downloaded without ANY pluggins and opened to the Mozilla start-page and Quote clipped
After using both to check mail, read a few groups, etc. the differences were
still concerning..Mz 14.5,vs IE 4.9.

You used *Firebird* to check e-mail and read groups? How did you do
that? Last I knew *Firebird* did not do mail or usenet, *Thunderbird*
is used for that.

--

 

[Wald]

Maybe, maybe not. I was hooked on Firebird but found it really
slow with Java installed. Without Java, it was pretty quick. I
tried the latest build of MyIE {with Java installed} and I like
it much better than Moz. It's faster and easier to control your
browsing experience.

That might be a valuable argument, I don't know, my main browser is
Mozilla itself for now and I haven't installed Java on FireBird
yet...

But then again, FireBird is in full development, the latest
official release is 0.7RC3 IIRC. So I guess we can still expect
major improvements, hopefully also on the Java part...

Regards,
Wald

 

[donutbandit]

You used *Firebird* to check e-mail and read groups? How did you do
that? Last I knew *Firebird* did not do mail or usenet, *Thunderbird*
is used for that.

Maybe he was using Fireturd?

 

[RagingBull]

| In alt.comp.freeware on Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:34:32 GMT "RagingBull"
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| You used *Firebird* to check e-mail and read groups? How did you do
| that? Last I knew *Firebird* did not do mail or usenet, *Thunderbird*
| is used for that.
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|
I misspoke...I did that comparing MyIE2 and IE.
With Firebird I read some articles at CNN and TV listings at Zap2it. (Doing
a lot of comparo..)