Opera is faster than Mozilla mostly because Mozilla has a rather slow
widget set/toolkit that it uses (XUL). However, remember that Mozilla
is being designed as a "reference implementation" of the Gecko engine in
addition to a browser as a whole.
Other browsers like Galeon, Dillo, etc. use a much faster but less
portable (X11 only) toolkit, GTK+, and Konquerer uses a similar one
(qt). Galeon and Konquerer are also a bit slower than an all integrated
browser can be due their nature of embedding another element to do the
acutal HTML rendering (Gecko and KHTML respectively). Internet Explorer
also does this but speed issues are worked around by integrating the IE
HTML applet into the core of the OS.
Opera is a self contained entity which means everything is tightly
optimized, resulting in better performance. For something similar to
this, take a look at Dillo. It's not a fancy browser, but it's
extremely fast and small (they use it on iPaqs for example).
Hope this helps.
--MonMotha
Eric Jeschke wrote:
On Wed, 15 May 2002, R. Scott Belford wrote:
| I have always loved Opera. Why is it so much faster than all other
| browsers? Is it design brilliance, or design choice? Does anyone
| know? I wish they all loaded pages as fast.
Have you tried Galeon? It is a great browser. Probably not as fast as
Opera, but the interface, especially the tabbed browsing, is great.
