Re: [Usability] Re: Epiphany

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

Please don't get into a performance discussion unless you've somehow
timed the various apps. It's fruitless otherwise (and not something
anyone is likely to base any discussions on anyway.)

Luis

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 23:25 -0300, Leonardo Santagada wrote:
> Maybe it was just me, or maybe it was the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
> emerge world that was making the computer unstable (performance wise)
> but I thought that firefox was rendering the same pages faster (no
> cache involved, it was opening google.com which I have already opened
> in the two browsers). I have an athlon 3.0 ghz 512 ram gento and
> neither firefox nor ephi were prelinked (maybe firefox, but I don't
> remember)
> 
> 
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:22:42 -0400, Ricardo Veguilla
> <veguilla hpcf upr edu> wrote:
> > Leonardo Santagada wrote:
> > 
> > >On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:49:50 +0200 (CEST), Reinout van Schouwen
> > ><reinout cs vu nl> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hi Leonardo,
> > >>
> > >>On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Leonardo Santagada wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>I really think ephy is a better browser for gnome than firefox, but it
> > >>>still have a lot of room for improuvement, here is my take on it:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>am I correct in thinking that you sent this to me personally? In that
> > >>case I will reply off list too.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >I am sorry, I meant to send to the list but I never know if it is the
> > >kind that you have to reply all or not
> > >
> > >
> > >>>       * Noticeably slower than firefox: You can search the web for
> > >>>         benchmarks
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>You are making the assertion, why don't you search for benchmarks? :-)
> > >>Anyhow, Ephy is based on the exact same codebase as Mozilla/Firefox so
> > >>I wonder what part of it would be slow and why.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >I saw some benchmarks and couldn't believe, then I used and it is
> > >noticeably slower.
> > >
> > 
> > For what is worth, I'm running Fedora Rawhide on a Pentium II 450 Mhz
> > with 386 MB ram. I noticed that early versions of epiphany (1.0.x) where
> > considerably slower than galeon (opening new windows, filing and
> > managing bookmarks).  I've used firefox both on windows and on linux and
> > firefox is considerably slower on linux (in my experience). I still find
> > Epiphany a little slower than galeon, but noticeabbly faster than firefox.
> > 
> > I'm talking mainly about the GUI aspects of the program (start up,
> > opening new windows, tabs, opening the preferences/options).
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ricardo Veguilla
> > 
> > 
> 
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