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[Adam Williams]

>> You might also look at Opera for Linux (www.opera.com). It can
>> have multiple windows with individual web pages  within one
>> instance of the program, presumably using less ram and swap than
>> multiple browsers.
>So can Mozilla-based Galeon:
>   http://galeon.sourceforge.net
>I'm running Galeon 0.11.5 with Mozilla 0.9.3 (Ximian).  Very fast.

I also use Galeon,  it is the fastest Linux browser I have found yet.
I've been in this session for about 2.5 hours,  and it has a resident size
of 43Mb.  Not what I would call svelt,  but better than Netscrape under
similair circumstances.

The facts-on-the-ground is that "standards compliant browsers" these days
are labrynthine monster,  and are just flat-out going to be big memory
guzllers.

Of course an RSS of 43M doesn't mean it is actually using 43M,  a fair
amount of that may be paged out.  I have GNOME + nautilus + Star Office
6.0 (including a presentation) + gcvs + 3 gnome terminals + 4 panel
appletts + Apache + sendmail + squid + bind + nfsd + kerberos kdc +
openldap + ppowerd + dhcpd + imapd + xfsft + one 43M Java server
application.  And in 256Mb of RAM (Dual PII 300) performance is great.

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