Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird

From: Michael Johnson (mjohnson_at_pitsco.com)
Date: 02/27/04

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    On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:58:50 +0100, Jan Schulz
    <muelleimer@usenet.katzien.de> wrote:

    > * Peter A. Cole <peteracole@bigpond.com> wrote:
    >> Just wondering if anyone can suggest a lighter weight alternative to
    >> Mozilla
    >> Firebird?
    >> I'm running Sarge on an old P200MMX with 160MB RAM, but Firebird still
    >> chews
    >> up a little too much memory.
    >
    > Opera.
    >

    Just keep in mind that Opera grabs idle memory for use in caching. It
    readily gives it up when other applications need it, though. Opera has a
    .deb on their download site.

    Michael 

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