From: avi@...4.com (Avi Bryant)
Date: 2002-02-17T05:01:43+09:00
Subject: Re: OT Netscape 4.x? was Re: "Powered by Ruby" banner

Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> wrote in message news:<20020216135341.GA75585@voi.aagh.net>...
> * Tobias Reif (tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com) wrote:
> 
> > Avi Bryant wrote:
> >
> > > and the response time in NS4.7 is so much better than
> > > mozilla/konq/etc that I gladly live with the DHTML wonkiness.
> 
> Funny, whenever I used Netscape I was bowled over by how mindnumbingly
> slow it was.  I guess having a table renderer with expenential layout
> cost for nesting doesn't help.
> 
> Mozilla is rather too slow for me though; a 10-15 second startup time is
> too long for any app, especially a browser I'm going to be
> opening/closing a lot.
> 
> Tried Skipstone?   Supposed to be a good GTK based browser based around
> Gecko.

Anything based around Gecko is going to be just as bad for me as
Mozilla - what I care about is render time, not startup time.  And if
you know of something faster than Netscape, let me know - IE may be,
but I don't use inferior operating systems either ;-).  I'm pretty
sure Opera isn't.