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here are two results from stopwatch useing netscape8

 

here is the other

 

You should clear your cache if you hadnt already, with my 24k useing firefox i get to mozilla.org in 37seconds, it takes 38 with netscape.

 

I just got to wilders in 1.297 seconds that is 1and 1/4 seconds and It opened google in a half a second. That is fast enough in anyones book.

 

Ahh yes the power of high speed, wish i still had it!

 

Thank goodness for cable internet

 

For sure!

Thanks for stopwatch link to! Its cool!

 

Not surprising considering that the latest Netscape is a modified older version of firefox. This mean it is not patched against the latest exploits unlike firefox 1.0.3

Thanks but no thanks

 

Just wait till BigC tries to get you to join the Eight Virus Scanners Club!

Acadia

 

Correct.

Acadia

 

So far its a tossup for me as to whether K-Meleon or Firefox is faster.

I wonder tho something strange. I have a pretty powerful desktop and my wife has a laptop. On certain sites, my wife's laptop pwns my desktop when it comes to speed. Acutally the more I think about it, almost every site she visits is faster.

I wonder if this is just some settings or extensions on my FF compared to hers or if it is a hardware issue. I have also heard that FF does not handle HT very well so perhaps that could be the case?

 

Is the laptop and the desktop running exactly the same software ? difference choices in security software (among others) will sometimes make a difference.

 

No they definitely do not have the same software. Her's is a Dell Latitude pretty much not touched from OEM outside of some apps and security tweaks I did for her.

Mine is a pretty fresh install of XP (from like two weeks ago). Hmmm I wonder if its NOD32. Let me try something here.

 

Just downloaded K-Meleon to try, worked in my admin account, but refused to run in my limited account (one I use every day)

This is bad.....

Surely this cannot be right, have I screwed up my install?

 

Not sure. I have no probs running as admin or as a normal "user". How do you have your limited acct setup?

 

It's installed in the xp-home system, limited account being just that, no power user like in the pro version

When launched using the limited account, I get a lot of pop up saying 'blah blah blah' plugin available, want to install now. No matter what option I choose, I get the Window report splash screen at the end.

In the admin account, the browser launches nicely, look rather nice too, just a shame I can't run it in my everyday account.

 

That sounds strange. So its just a basic user acct, but it does not run? Weird cos I can run both ways but I am using XP Pro.

Do you have your service pack and all hot fixes up to snuff?

Perhaps you should set everything up the way you like first with your admin, plug-ins etc, and then demote yourself to a basic acct.

 

Just installed it on a different PC, again Win XP home, with one admin account, and a few limited ones.

On this machine, it worked. As to your original question, the first machine is running SP2 with all the latest updates.

What I'm going to do is uninstall it, and try again. Now that I know the install was cocked up

 

Cool glad to hear that man.

Make sure you add the tweaks for speed and Single Window Mode. Works really well imho.

So far (on my system anyway) some sites load faster with FF and some load faster with K-Melon. Both seem to be nice browsers tho. I like em both a LOT better than IE.

Good luck, let us know how your other machine turns out.

 

It is patched

 

First impression, very very nice And boy, it fast

Am I understanding you correctly, you can tweak it to make it even faster!!!!!!

 

Yes sir. Some tips and tricks can be found HERE.
and the speed tweaks are HERE.

Good luck and have fun. Im still learning this browser but I like it a lot so far.

Regards,

Jag

 

Hmmmm, more problems. I can now use it in my everyday account, BUT everytime I close my browser, all my settings are lost. At start, I keep getting a pop up message saying bookmark not found, do I want to create one?

When I close the browser, I get a message saying cannot save to file as I don't have read/write privilege......

Very strange indeed. I posted the problem to the K-Meleon forum. Hope I get some sort of feedback