[ale] The Firefox Throwdown

[Chris Woodfield]

Their stated goal is 1 million downloads in 10 days...they're at 500K after two. 
Something tells me they'll make it. :)

-C

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 06:02:50AM -0400, Van Loggins wrote:
> Firefox is my favorite web browser! :)
> 
> I downloaded the 1.0 prerelease and loaded it on my slackware linux
> box, and I've installed the windows version on my gaming computer. I'm
> currently testing it and the thunderbird 0.8 release as a potential
> replacement for netscape on our NCD thin client X terminals.
> 
> I am hopeful that it will be a little bit less resource intensive, as
> netscape crashing or freezing up is one of our biggest problems with
> having users use it in a thin client environment for their email and
> their web browser.
> 
> I have looked at several other programs for email, but I need
> something that's GTK and doesn't use gnome or kde as both are too
> resource intensive to have 20 or more users running it from the X
> server. and I have found that the more processes a program fires off
> on these thin clients, then the more likely it is for the program to
> have problems and hang up or crash. Our terminals use motif and if a
> kde or gnome program is started they fire up all of the stuff
> necessary to get the gnome or kde program to run.
> 
> So far firefox 1.0 prerelease, and thunderbird 0.8 work very well
> except for a few little minor integration bugs.
> 
> I can provide more details if anyone here wants to discuss it further.
> 
> have a great day!
> 
> Van
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:57:41 -0400 (EDT), John Wells
> <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> > http://www.g4techtv.com/screensavers/features/48009/The_Firefox_Throwdown.html
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