Yes! MonMotha you have once again dropped the knowledge I seek. This
gives me something to chew on, and I now understand a bit better. Thanks
scott
On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 02:09 PM, MonMotha wrote:
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.
