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Quest for fast browser
Posted by: kymilion
Date: January 05, 2001 01:25PM

I am typing this message while downloading this browser.
There seems to be mixed reviews so far, is it going to be any good?

I have tried a lot of browsers, most are crap, relying on explorer to be
present, defeating any chance of being a fast browser.
Does this work in the same way?

So far the fastest browser seems to be Opera v4.02, it burns
rubber in the face of explorer and navigator. Is only a few megabytes compared to the big bloat twosome, and handles downloads much better.

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RE: Quest for fast browser
Posted by: Dustin
Date: January 08, 2001 02:55AM

Kmeleon is faster, but keep in mind its at version 0.2.1 (not even version 1.0 yet) so a alot of the features you expect from the 7.0MB+ browsers will not be here, give it some time and this could compete very well with the bigger browsers. I like it, its fast, small and effiecient, now if it only handled Java, https, and had a mail client...but all in time.

Dustin

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opera rocks.. try version 5.01,
Posted by: ori malkin
Date: January 10, 2001 07:45PM

but do a clean install - 4 is very VERY bugish (full of bugs).
when you install 5 over 4 - the bugs remains, for me - anyway.

On a clean install - you get opera, a full featured slim fast as a rocket browser, and almost bug free..!

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RE: opera rocks.. try version 5.01,
Posted by: whawk
Date: January 11, 2001 04:32PM

yeah opera rocks, but still cant work with it....it displays a lot of webs wrongly.....

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RE: opera rocks.. try version 5.01,
Posted by: Jodrell
Date: January 15, 2001 02:32PM


> I like it, its fast, small and effiecient, now if it only handled Java, https, and had
> a mail client...but all in time

Adding a mail client would sort of go against K-Meleon's principles. Like Galeon (whose motto is "The Web, only the Web"), K-Meleon should keep the creeping featurism to a minimum. Galeon handles e-mail by passing it on to whatever e-mail client is specified, in fact it doesn't even handle downloads - they're handled by the Gnome Transfer Manager.

Jodrell (big Galeon and K-Meleon user).

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RE: opera rocks.. try version 5.01,
Posted by: suppafly
Date: January 21, 2001 10:11PM

yeh i already have eudora for email .. if you want email in your browser goto mail.yahoo.com .. they have excellent webmail..

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