On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:34, arro wrote:
> > I would suggest Opera 5.2. It's under three megs, you can get get it in
> > a rpm package. Works great, and loads fast and free (with ads). You can
> > find it at www.opera.com.
> >
> > Lynn Sadler
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>
> well opera is a nice small browser indeed which has a few useful features
> like the MDI view , but its rendering engine is not sooooo well , also it
> does not support netscape compatible plugins ...means no java or flash ,
> and it's Javascript implementation is nothing but poor ...furthermore more
> complicated or faulty pages sometimes happen to crash the browser.
>
> AND THEY STILL WANT MONEY FOR IT (well there is a banner version too, to be
> fair..)
>
> I always would recommend using a browser based on the "gecko" rendering
> engine ...like mozilla,galeon,.... i personally don't like mozilla or
> Konqueror(don't know which engine this one is using) because they seems to
> take too much resources ....so finally i also end up most times using
> galeon... well i guess there is no browser yet to be really satisfied yet.
Opera is a great browser primarily for its speed. It aims to be fully
standards-compliant (unlike Netscape 4.x and IE). However, Mozilla is just as
fast and just as (maybe even more) standards-compliant. Mozilla has its own
"Gecko" rendering engine. The same engine is used in Netscape 6, Galeon and
Nautilus, so pages in those browsers should look identical to pages in
Mozilla. Konqueror has its own engine, KHTML, but it can also use Gecko
through the Kmozilla plug-in (part of KDE 2.2).
Netscape 6 is _not_ a clone of Mozilla, or vice-versa, as has been suggested
before. Mozilla is an open source (in fact, it is GPL) project to create a
fully standards-compliant, cross-platform browser. Netscape 6 is Mozilla with
a few "enhancements" made by AOL (who own Netscape). Netscape 6 is not
updated nearly as often as Mozilla, and it is slightly heavier on a system
(because of the unnecessary "enhancements"). If you want to use the Gecko
engine, use Mozilla, Nautilus or Galeon. Don't bother with Netscape 6.
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