You are currently viewing a snapshot of www.mozilla.org taken on April 21, 2008. Most of this content is highly out of date (some pages haven't been updated since the project began in 1998) and exists for historical purposes only. If there are any pages on this archive site that you think should be added back to www.mozilla.org, please file a bug.

Skip to main content

Comparisons between low-end and mid-range machines

1-10-2002 build
Metric
 Low-end (Pentium II, 266mhz, 128MB RAM)
 Mid-range (Pentium III, 833mhz, 512MB RAM)
 Outlook Express (Pentium III, 833mhz, 512MB RAM)
 Netscape 4.79 (Pentium III, 833mhz, 512MB RAM)
Folder Loading Speed
 0.97 (1.27 0.88 0.76)
 0.31 (0.35, 0.29, 0.30)
 <0.30
 0.75 (0.76, 0.74, 0.75)
Thread Pane Scrolling Speed
 0.93 (0.93 0.93 0.92)
 0.51 (0.56, 0.50, 0.48)
 <0.30
 <0.30
Message Display Speed
 5.25 (5.27 5.33 5.16)
 3.82 (3.84, 3.83, 3.80)
 3.18 (3.16, 3.18, 3.19)
 4.10 (4.07, 4.10, 4.12)
Thread Pane Sorting
 sbj=0.57
sen=0.61
date=0.34
 sbj=<0.30
sen=<0.30
date=<0.30
 sbj=<0.30
sen=<0.30
date=<0.30
 sbj=<0.30
sen=<0.30
date=<0.30
Message Reply Speed
 3.00 (3.93 2.55 2.53)
 0.87 (1.22, 0.70, 0.70)
 0.37 (0.50, 0.30, 0.32)
 0.42 (0.46, 0.42, 0.37)
Message Reply Speed - Recycled Windows
 2.54 (4.66 1.53 1.42)
 0.56 (0.98, 0.35, 0.35)
  -
 -
New Window Time
 2.26 (3.19 1.80 1.79)
 0.62 (0.89, 0.47, 0.51)
 0.44 (0.40, 0.45, 0.46)
 0.37 (0.49, 0.30, 0.31)
New Window Time - Recycled Windows
 1.15 (2.73 0.36 0.35)
 0.36 (0.86, 0.11, 0.11)
  -
 -
Batch Delete 5 Messages
 0.86 ( 0.85, 0.85, 0.87)
 < 0.30
 0.40 (0.37, 0.40, 0.42)
 0.41 (0.45, 0.41, 0.37)
Mail Module Loading Time
 7.06 (7.04, 7.10, 7.05) 2.03 (2.01, 2.04, 2.03)
 0.86 (0.85, 0.89, 0.83)
 1.81 (1.84, 1.76, 1.83)