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Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:30 pm
by Num3
dagcrack wrote:As a side-note: GOOGLE will eventually take their own browser.. and after that.. their own OS..
You forgot their own internet protocol!
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:08 am
by dagcrack
Mh... perhaps not that much.
However they are already making more money that I might ever see in my life..
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:27 am
by ricardo
I do't like FireFox.
I download it and its bloated, slow... I was testing too NetCaptor and Avant (yes i know, they use ie), but i want something light not FireFox.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:25 am
by Truth_Seeker
I use Maxthon, cant surf without it. I wished it was lighter and maybe used the engine behind mozilla (cant remember what it is called). I know you can almost have the same with lots of extensions with firefox but I think the extensions for firefox make it clunky, maybe thats just me. I know it is nice for people to be able to add to it but if firefox crashes really badly (which has happened to me) things can go badly with them.
You've got to be kidding
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:31 am
by Fangbeast
ricardo wrote:I do't like FireFox.
I download it and its bloated, slow... I was testing too NetCaptor and Avant (yes i know, they use ie), but i want something light not FireFox.
Bloated? Slow? That's definately your own opinion then. It's nice and fast on this computer and not a bloated install at all compared to some of the others that install and use IE as their rendering engine.
I've tested FireFox on 5 different computers here and seen it running on friends computers and it wasn't slow (or bloated) on any of them.
Each to their own choice, but making statements like that without facts is silly. Sincerely, each browser has something to recomend it to different personalities.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:34 pm
by Trond
The download for Firefox is 4.7 megebytes. The download for Thunderbird is 5.8 mb.
The newest version of Opera is only 3.6 megabytes and includes both web browsing (Firefox), email (Thunderbird) and RSS feeds (Thunderbird). (I won't mention it includes an IRC client.)
Now tell me which one's larger: 10.5 megabytes or 3.6 megabytes?
About the speed:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html
On Linux, Opera is faster than Firefox on all tasks except warm start.
On Mac OS X, Opera is faster than Firefox on all tasks.
On Windows, Opera is faster than Firefox on all tasks.