On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
>> Get Mozilla instead. I find the 0.7 release (and nightly builds after
>> that) are far more stable and somewhat faster then 4.x ever was. It even
>> supports SSL now.
>>
>> :-)
>
> Wait a minute. To what part of your post does that smiley refer ?
The whole thing... but I wasn't being sarcastic, if that's what you mean.
:-)
> Seriously. Last time I tried Mozilla it was bloated and slow. Are you
> really suggesting it's faster than 4.x now ?
Certainly. Not that being faster than 4.x is all that hard, but it
generally performs very well. Especially for rendering complex pages.
Occasionally, some aspect of the UI will seem to "pause" before coming up, but
only on the infrequently used features, and only sometimes. I think this is
the result of debugging or unoptimized code (but I don't know for sure). In
any event, I've been using Mozilla for my primary browser since M18, and I
haven't run Netscape 4.x in several weeks.
If you're really after speed, I'd suggest downloading and trying out the
Opera for Linux beta. While still in development (but then, so is Mozilla),
it is blazing fast -- it even gives Lynx a run for its money on my system.
--
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