Can People open a web browser while running SL-Client?

Hi there,

I'm relatively new to SL and I don't have problems to go in world and open a web browser or have other applications open at the same time. But I have heard from other residents, that they cannot open a browser when they are running the SL-Client.

My question is, how common is this (maybe how many % of people may have this problem)? Sometimes it will be easier to point people to a website to show a screenshot rather than uploading it for 10L$ to show it in world. But if so many people cannot just open a browser to view an external website, I will have to bite the bullet and pay for each screenshot to upload.

Jim

I can, but it's a lesson in torture. The web (and pretty much everything else) just comes to a crawl with SL running. I avoid it as much as possible.

Yup yup, if you have dualcore its easy wont even strain SL/browser, or anything, only when i run 2 sl and wow then i can get slow : p

You mean , Profile / web , btw? or seperate window/screen for normal browser when clicked on a link (why?), normal ingame web is kinda blergh but hey : p some dont run SL in a window.

yeah, no problem here. dual core amd athlon64 x2, windows xp x64. seems to take whatever i throw at it.

Will it help if you limit the bandwith in SL? you can do that in Preferences (CTRL-P) in the network tab. I think it will slow down rendering textures in SL, but should not slow down the browser.