Xubuntu on 1999 Dell PIII 450mhz and 128 megs ram; not enough

[Sy Ali]

On 4/28/07, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:42:00PM -0400, Sy Ali wrote
> > Well.. firefox is dog slow.  But that's "normal".
>
>   "Slow" may be due to webpages with HTML that refuses to display the
> page until some overloaded adserver serves out a banner-ad to you<g>.
> If you wanted slow, you should've tried beta-testing *MOZILLA* (not
> Firefox) 0.90 through 0.95 on a P3.

I think firefox was around 0.30 at the time.  I never did take a close
look at mozilla.. the idea of all those features being folded together
didn't exactly rub me the right way.  I mean.. I was using blackbox,
the king of the straight and narrow.  They even kicked bbkeys out of
their bed for eating crackers..
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