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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 10 October 2003, 21:37

Title: Firebird and old computers question
Post by: mobrien_12 on 10 October 2003, 21:37

Would Firebird work well on old computers such as a pentium 200 or a pentium 100?

Title: Firebird and old computers question
Post by: hm_murdock on 10 October 2003, 10:50

does it work well on new computers?

yes

just expect it to run slower being on a slower box

Title: Firebird and old computers question
Post by: mobrien_12 on 11 October 2003, 00:02

How much slower are we talking about?  I find mozilla to be extremely slow on anything less than a Pentium II, to the point where I consider it basically unusuable.  A pentium II or above I don't see really any appreciable difference in speed.

I have netscape 4.8 running on a pentium 100 because I don't want MSIE and mozilla was unusable on it.

Title: Firebird and old computers question
Post by: Fett101 on 11 October 2003, 01:10

On my Pentium 166, it's slower then IE.   :(

Title: Firebird and old computers question
Post by: Commander on 11 October 2003, 06:20

firebird takles a LOT of memory to run.  so if u r running low on memory, it slows down a lot.

Title: Firebird and old computers question
Post by: hm_murdock on 11 October 2003, 07:28

I'm finding the opposite...

Firebird on a beige G3 233 running 10.2.6 and it's plenty quick for me. I'd say, aside from starting the app, it's as quick as Safari 1.0, but still not as quick as OmniWeb.

the only problem, is that I'm comparing against browsers you can't run =^(

Mozilla  1.3 takes roughly 24 whole seconds to launch on my 500MHz G3 iMac... I'll use it as the benchmark. And it takes nearly a minute to start on the G3 233.

Firebird launches in 15 seconds on the 500MHz G3, while it launches in about 30 seconds on the 233.

just a rough benchmark. your results may vary, especially considering OS reqs and overhead

Title: Firebird and old computers question
Post by: mushrooomprince on 12 October 2003, 04:02

Firebird is already slow on some systems.  If i were you i would just get a older copy of a browser that works well.

Title: Firebird and old computers question
Post by: Refalm on 12 October 2003, 14:20

Use Opera, Galeon, Links or Konqueror on older computers.

Title: Firebird and old computers question
Post by: Doctor V on 12 October 2003, 16:12

If all else fails use dillo (do a google search).  Dillo is as lightweight as browsers get, I ran it on a machine that couldn't run firebird.

Dillo will run.

Title: Firebird and old computers question
Post by: Fett101 on 13 October 2003, 05:34

There's always Lynx  (http://smile.gif)