Actually mozilla nightly builds and even M13 as I tested them on winnt 4.0 were faster than IE5. I tested them on two machines simultaneously( pII 400,128MB, 10mbps lan).the machines are identical and the enter key was pressed on the same url at the same time by two people and Mozilla came out winner in majority of the cases it amazed even the most diehard IE user who witnessed this.
I run linux at home and personally and the reason i can come up with for why mozilla is faster on win32 and slower on linux is that the win32 builds donot spew out debug satements in a termial/dos window. And as far as I know printed debug satements can slow things down.
I have been tracking mozilla since M7 and it has come along way and is definitely getting there. and when it gets here its going to turn heads.
Congrats to the mozilla team for achieving another milestone build!!!
The installation notes in the release notes ask you to delete the registry in~./mozilla if it crashes at startup. I haven't tried it yet but the nightly build before this was stable on my box at home.
Which version of glibc do you have? the release notes say that the dlopen and dlclose are broken in glibc2.0 which rh5.2 and many distros are linked with.
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Actually mozilla nightly builds and even M13 as I tested them on winnt 4.0 were faster than IE5. I tested them on two machines simultaneously( pII 400,128MB, 10mbps lan).the machines are identical and the enter key was pressed on the same url at the same time by two people and Mozilla came out winner in majority of the cases it amazed even the most diehard IE user who witnessed this.
I run linux at home and personally and the reason i can come up with for why mozilla is faster on win32 and slower on linux is that the win32 builds donot spew out debug satements in a termial/dos window. And as far as I know printed debug satements can slow things down.
I have been tracking mozilla since M7 and it has come along way and is definitely getting there. and when it gets here its going to turn heads.
Congrats to the mozilla team for achieving another milestone build!!!
The installation notes in the release notes ask you to delete the registry in~./mozilla if it crashes at startup. I haven't tried it yet but the nightly build before this was stable on my box at home.
Which version of glibc do you have? the release notes say that the dlopen and dlclose are broken in glibc2.0 which rh5.2 and many distros are linked with.