Firefox is a PIG on memory var: Respectful critic - thanks.

[Lars Noldan]

I admit I haven't tried it yet myself, but how does the performance of Free 
Opera 8.5 compare to Firefox 1.07 on Breezy?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phillip Sc. Boegh" <psb at ipl.dtu.dk>
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Firefox is a PIG on memory var: Respectful critic - thanks.


>> I feel like I hit a nerve on this one, hehehe.
> All right - but I think some newbees cannot distinguish between
> "applications that they have ordered and spend a lot of money for" and
> "applications that are kindly developed for all and voluntarily".
> You cannot compare open-source programs with commercial closed source
> because the close source developers can build in the open-source code and
> fix some bugs - which they hold for themselves in close code. So we'll
> always be behind the commercial applications.
>
>> And yes, I do contribute bug reports. I have even tracked down the
>> occasional bug in code and forwarded the fix onto the real development
>> team before.
> Well done and you even go all the way! Other people with no idea of
> creating programs take others time for granted.
>
> But even newbees can create bug-reports when they have found no fix in the
> newsgroups. And a well developed report is very usefull.
>
> Phillip
>
> -- 
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users