>> I think you're missing a key piece of the puzzle in your understanding
>> of the Tacoma Narrows Browser Project here: The UI is written in
>> something called "XUL". Basically Mozilla's UI is a glorified webpage
>> *itself*, and is rendered by that same engine. Slowly. Poorly.
>> Resulting in the vast majority of the problems people have with Mozilla.
>
> Yes, I realize that what I just wrote sounded strange, since the UI _is_
> the Gecko engine, as you so cleverly pointed out. This is why Mozilla is
> so slow! Ok, the page may be rendered faster according to some advanced
> benchmarking tests, but the average user (I keep getting back to that
> user!) won't even notice it. She will only notice that the program loads
> slowly and is slow overall.
Hmm, for average user there may be the difference in program loading
and displaying the page - he's simply unable to see the fact the sum of
this two times is the same for almost every browser ^_- (Yeah, that's
true even on my old PIII/500.)
Jirka
