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> > What is wrong with Opera 6.03?  
> 
> Opera was sluggish on my 486-66 (16mb RAM).  The top third
> of the screen was wasted because of that large banner.  And,
> worst of all, the animated advertisements weighed down the
> CPU significantly.  For one ad in particular, the icewm CPU
> meter ran at over 50% just to keep the ad going.  That's
> far too big a burden for a 486.  However, if a 486 user wants
> to pay Opera to remove those ads, then yes Opera might be OK
> on a 486 (but it would be better to have more than 16mb RAM).

I use opera in full-screen mode.  Press F11 and you get rid of the banner
ad and all the buttons.  Does the banner ad continue to take up CPU time
when you are in full-screen mode and don't see it?

You can toggle back to button-mode if you cannot remember the keyboard
commands.  F2 - gives you something to type the URL into.  Then toggle
back to full-screen.

Is there some easy way I could tell linux to operate with only 16M RAM so
I could check whether Opera still works okay?  



> dillo, links2 and browseX were less problematical on my 486
> (although not as fully-featured as Opera).  And browseX has 
> the advantage of a built-in mail client.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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