<div>On 8/7/07, Eero Tamminen <<a href="mailto:oak@helsinkinet.fi">oak@helsinkinet.fi</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi, On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > The prominence of the Xubuntu help on the desktop is an issue. However, > the issue we are trying to address is that people do not want to view > documentation in Firefox because it takes too long to load. If they > already have firefox open, it isn't as bad but I can imagine there will > be times when a user wants help on a topic that does not involve the > internet/web-browser and as a consequence simply do not have firefox > open. If Firefox is already open, starting something like Yelp is definately slower than opening a new window in Firefox for the help page and as it's a new UI process, it most likely takes more memory from the system too. Most users have browser open all the time.</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>Could you please provide some hard evidence to support this.</div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> In these cases, the wait time is simply unbearable on lower-end > systems. Often users are unaware that they are launching firefox > and are confused by the immediate performance hit they feel. This is a UI feedback issue.  I'm (sometimes) using Epiphany on P166 (Epiphany is slightly faster to start and uses slightly less memory than Firefox) with IceWM and because it has a CPU meter, there's feedback that something actually happening (besides modem noise :-)) when it's launched.        - Eero </blockquote></div> -- Firefox (<a href="http://www.getfirefox.com">www.getfirefox.com</a>) -- A browser you can trust