how do i make it go faster?

Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Camino, Mozilla, Netscape 6/7/8/9, and all Gecko-based browsers discussion and support forum.
(MozInfo701, Netscape Browser Archive)

Moderators: Antony, Edward, profman, Ramona

how do i make it go faster?

Postby fuscia » Fri 10 Jun, 2005 4:12 pm

netscape is a little slow on my machine. are there tweaks i can do?
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050519 Netscape/8.0.1
User avatar
fuscia
new member
new member
 
Posts: 4
Joined: Wed 08 Jun, 2005 8:09 pm

Postby Fulvio » Fri 10 Jun, 2005 5:17 pm

I heard that NS8.01 is slower than average. There is another post on the same topic as yours. It is too new, and too buggy. My solution? don't use it.
Firefox1.0.4 is much more reliable.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (ax)
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong
~ Henrik Ibsen
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, SM2.9.1, FF12, TB12.0.1, IE8.0, Google Chrome18, Ghostwall , Avast 7.x, JRE1.7_04. Testing FF13b3
User avatar
Fulvio
Moderator
Moderator
 
Posts: 11915
Joined: Wed 19 Jun, 2002 10:08 am

Postby fuscia » Sat 11 Jun, 2005 9:39 pm

Fulvio wrote:I heard that NS8.01 is slower than average. There is another post on the same topic as yours. It is too new, and too buggy. My solution? don't use it.
Firefox1.0.4 is much more reliable.


i use firefox as my main browser. netscape is pretty, so i like using it...except for the slowness.

fulvio, eh? you're not a weatherman, are you?
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050519 Netscape/8.0.1
User avatar
fuscia
new member
new member
 
Posts: 4
Joined: Wed 08 Jun, 2005 8:09 pm

Re: how do i make it go faster?

Postby Antony » Sat 11 Jun, 2005 11:28 pm

fuscia wrote:netscape is a little slow on my machine. are there tweaks i can do?
Try to turn off all those additional news feeds, weathers etc from the toolbar (or personal toolbar).
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412
User avatar
Antony
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 14509
Joined: Tue 18 Jun, 2002 11:36 pm
Location: Sydney, Australia


Return to Firefox, SeaMonkey and Netscape

Who is online

Registered users: Google [Bot], Yahoo [Bot]