Must be me then!
On Sunday 09 January 2005 19:26, John McGuire wrote:
> Mine came through as just 'firefox vs mozilla'
>
> John McGuire
> BlackLight Systems
>
>
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> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Mikey
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 7:12 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: ***SUSPECT SPAM*** firefox vs mozilla
>
> now I don't know if it is me who starts the subject line. Did anyone
> else get
> this from Bart with the ***SUSPECT SPAM*** in the subject line or was I
> the
> only one?
>
> On Sunday 09 January 2005 17:14, Bart Garst wrote:
> > I've asked this before, I just can't seem to find the thread in the
> > archives.
> >
> > I had been under the assumption that firefox is a lightweight browser,
> > where mozilla is an entire suite of Internet apps (mail, browser,
>
> chat,
>
> > etc...).
> >
> > I want to focus on "lightweight". Does this refer to the resources
> > firefox uses? I remember being told firefox has a smaller memory
> > footprint than mozilla, however, my findings show the opposite.
> >
> > Versions are (deb packages):
> > Mozilla - 1.6-5
> > Firefox - 1.0-4
> >
> > Here's what I did:
> > Only firefox open, single tab, simple html page displayed from my
>
> local
>
> > apache installation.
> > `pmap -d pid_for_firefox-bin`
> > Final line of output reads:
> > mapped: 83516K writeable/private: 52808K shared: 768K
> >
> > Then, with only mozilla open, single tab, same page.
> > `pmap -d pid_for_mozilla-bin`
> > Final line of output reads:
> > mapped: 78656K writeable/private: 50440K shared: 768K
> >
> > Mozilla has less mapped as well as less private memory usage.
> >
> > So the questions are:
> > Is my testing methodology flawed?
> > Is my original understanding of firefox incorrect?
> >
> > I'd appreciate any clarification I can get.
> >
> > Thx,
> > Bart
> >
> >
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