Hi all !

I've just burned my brand new UBCD4Win 2.5 cd, and it works great.
But i can't surf the web, have tried with IE and Firefox, but when it should start drawing the page, it freezes, and i have to kill the app.
Any ideas??

Thanks for ur help !

When you boot with the CD how big is the ramdrive? How much ram is on the system that you are having problems?

I'm starting to find out here that there are a few issues with FireFox being a memory hog. I was going to keep K-Meleon on the project after adding FireFox but I changed my mind due to a few users comments. I also didn't want people feeling that I was bloating the project size with too many similar tools. I put my better judgment aside and think I made a mistake removing it from the project. I am going to upload the old K-Meleon plugin from the previous version of the project and provide a link so people can have both on their CD.

I've just loaded up firefox and surfing wasn't any problem (apart from finding the menu link......)

Test PC was a 1ghz cpu and 256mb of ram.

I even ran AntiVir with firefox open, and still didn't have any problems.

Are your PC's similar spec to above where your seeing the problems?

I've tried with several pcs and same problem happens.
But i have just seen that my ubcd iso file has been generated with SPANISH xp-sp2 cd ..... maybe this is the point ..??

That is probably the issue because as I've always known it, BartPE was only compatible (for the most part) with the English version of XP. Do you have an English copy?

QUOTE (diego_rubio @ Apr 14 2005, 06:05 AM)

Just curious, how did you try IE (Internet Explorer) from within UBCD4Win v2.5? I have not yet built from v2.5 so perhaps this is a new feature?


QUOTE (SteelTrepid @ Apr 14 2005, 07:56 AM)

I did a little testing, and came up with the following results. Keep in mind, the values are approximate and may vary slightly from machine to machine, but gives you a a rough idea of memory usage.

I booted up from CD, and immediately did a "Clear RAM Drive." I then ran ExplorerXP, right-clicked and chose properties for the RAM Drive (drive b:\) to see memory usage. I then compared K-Meleon, FireFox 1.02 and Opera for memory usage, clearing the RAM Drive between each loading, to obtain as consistant results as possible, being careful to replicate each step. The approximate results:

• K-Meleon usage: ~18MB
• FireFox usage: ~21.4MB
• Opera usage: ~6.4MB

This test was done offline, so nothing was written to the cache in the RAM Drive.

Side Note:
Not that it should matter, but I also use an older version of the RAMDrive driver, so as to avoid the 96MB limitation... though in ordinary use, 96MB is probably more than most would use, I have found it extremely handy to occasionally have a much larger RAM Drive... when I'm at a computer that is "locked-down" - at a library or workstation for example, i can boot to my PE disc, and download large files to my RAM Drive, and re-upload to another location, all without leaving a trace.

Conclusion:
If RAM usage is the sole criteria for browser usage, Opera is the clear winner at only about 1/3 of the other popular browsers tested.

Perhaps others can replicate my results... otherwise, there appears to be little difference.

DW

Man!! I wish I had the time Digi does to do testing like that! I'm sorry folks, but he is the stuff. Always researching and kicking out the facts. I have a very analytical mind and I always need to see the numbers. Always interested in the facts, etc. and he gives them to us.

When I grow up.....I wanna be just like Digi!!!