Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[Tim Writer]

Andrej Marjan <amarjan-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> I won't comment on the quality of the code, but I will say that Mozilla and
> Firefox seem to interact really poorly with NT's craptacular scheduler and VM
> system. If you have enough RAM, the following config setting is a must under
> Windows:
> 
> 
> // keep browser from releasing its working set to NT when minimized -- 
> so it doesn't have to get paged in later
> user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", false);
> 
> Actually that's a general point: I have no less than 20 settings in user.js
> on any platform to make Firefox bearable. Mozilla is the Emacs of web
> browsers! :D

People used to say Emacs stands for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping!
That was in the days of 8MB Sun3s. I'd be happy if Firefox or Mozilla
occupied only 8MB.

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