> Both browsers have the challenge of being multiplatform. Yet, Opera 5 is resource
>friendly, fast, and pretty standards compliant. I try to use K-Meleon as a benchmark
>as to what Mozilla can be
> without all the frills and more. Even it isn't as fast as Opera. With Mozilla being
>open source, the development team is larger. Has more brought us less?
No. Opera doesn't purport to attempt to render pages that don't comply
with the HTML spec (as Mozilla does). This alone accounts for the
rendering speed difference (if Mozilla could implement the specs without
worrying about backwards compatibility, Gecko would be a megabyte or
less, too).
