Sometime Today, Saswata Banerjee & Associates assembled some asciibets to say:
Perhaps someone can summarise the points you have made. They are very valid. a. Increase Swap
Won't help. Swap resides on the hard disk. So it won't *reduce* hard disk usage.
b. Stop services that are not required
valid
c. Get More RAM (since lower ram = more swap file usage = slower / inefficient performance)
most valid
d. Recomend use of less resource hungary software (galeon instead of mozilla)
firebird seems to be even less resource hungry, and is the most standards compliant browser ever.
e. Do not fully shut off software that you are going to use again and again (eg, minimise mozilla instead of closing it when you finish looking at a webpage)
I think there's a quickstart feature somewhere, though as you mentioned, I couldn't find it. All the same, try Firebird, both on windows and on linux. Reduce the cache size though. The default is 50MB. Set it to 1MB for faster load times.