Re: anyone downloaded the new Firebird releases?

Hi

me@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
In <dM7ftMoVjLpG-pn2-llHhmiGeVIN5@localhost>, on 03/27/2007 at 05:08 PM, "Luc Van Bogaert" <yhp.ina.obtnreg@xxxxxxxxx> said:

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:12:48 UTC, "rafe" <rayyfieldster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I am on 2.0.0.1 and kind of frustrated -- I get crashes 3-4 a day,
plus the paging issues are driving me mad. (in fact between those and
my PMMail hangs, which force me to restart PMM 4-5x daily, I am
losing patience.)

not sure why I ended up on 2.0.0.1, I must have read something, I
don't usually prefer the newest of anything, & extensions getting
broken is tiresome. anyway, am thinking of going for FF 1.5.0.11.

I'm running the latest releases of both FF and TB. No problems.

I am currently running Mozilla 1.7.13 and have not upgraded to either the
Sea Monkey or FireFox browsers as I am concerned about increased resource
demands. I am running on an IBM ThinkPad 600E which has a Pentium II 366
processor and 544M of memory. Even Mozilla slows down at times on this
system and I don't want to deal with anything that is even more resource
hungry. I have maxed out the memory, so there is nothing further I can do
to improve performance on this system.

Am I correct in assuming that the newer releases will be more hungry for
CPU cycles than the release I am currently using? If not, which release
would be an improvement over this release? I know there are probably some
security risks in using this old a browser, but I am behind a NetGear
firewall and protected from at least many of the possible issues. Anyone
else using hardware this limited and can offer me feedback on this?

-- Dave


I do not know whether Seamonkey1.1.1+ uses more CPU cycles than your current Mozilla but this version of SM has enhanced High memory support which may help with the resources issue.

This version is available by clicking the Gecko 1.8.1.x-based releases link on http://pmw-warpzilla.sourceforge.net/ and then selecting either the zip or exe (installer) version of Seamonkey1.1.1

Regards

Pete
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