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Re: Browsers comparison on slow machine

 

Hello everyone

I'm testing fresh installation of Lubuntu from last ISO. I found, that Chromium does not support any proxy settings. This is serious failure for default OS browser, as for me.

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Yaroslav.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Lubuntu <lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:54:25 -0000
Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Browsers comparison on slow machine

> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:51:21 -0000, Mikhail Maksimov <mcwillin@xxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm out of the game for some time, sorry.
> >
> > My Lubuntu installation crashed and does not start anymore, and I
> > don't have several hours to do a complete reinstall, it is painfully
> > slow on such machine. I hope, however, I'll be able to do some testing
> > on a virtual machine next week. It will definitely be faster than
> > ages-old Celeron, so no "responsiveness" observations possible, but I
> > still can see the memory usage numbers.
> >
> > And yes, the memory usage numbers are reported while hovering over the
> > memory bar in taskmanager.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Mikhail
> >
> No problem.
> My test rig has been playing up, turned out to be the HDD ribbon cable.  
> Over 4 hours to install with only 128MB RAM, though I'm amazed the live CD  
> runs at all.
> Going to wait for the next ISO before doing any more testing.  I'm going  
> through my collection of old parts to see if I can't get a few machines up  
> and running for comparisons.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve
> 
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