[luau] RELEASE: Opera 6.0 for Linux

[R. Scott Belford]

Yes! MonMotha you have once again dropped the knowledge I seek.  This 
gives me something to chew on, and I now understand a bit better.  Thanks

scott


On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 02:09 PM, MonMotha wrote:

> Opera is faster than Mozilla mostly because Mozilla has a rather slow 
> widget set/toolkit that it uses (XUL).  However, remember that Mozilla 
> is being designed as a "reference implementation" of the Gecko engine 
> in addition to a browser as a whole.
>
> Other browsers like Galeon, Dillo, etc. use a much faster but less 
> portable (X11 only) toolkit, GTK+, and Konquerer uses a similar one 
> (qt).  Galeon and Konquerer are also a bit slower than an all 
> integrated browser can be due their nature of embedding another element 
> to do the acutal HTML rendering (Gecko and KHTML respectively).  
> Internet Explorer also does this but speed issues are worked around by 
> integrating the IE HTML applet into the core of the OS.
>
> Opera is a self contained entity which means everything is tightly 
> optimized, resulting in better performance.  For something similar to 
> this, take a look at Dillo.  It's not a fancy browser, but it's 
> extremely fast and small (they use it on iPaqs for example).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --MonMotha
>
> Eric Jeschke wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 May 2002, R. Scott Belford wrote:
>> | I have always loved Opera.  Why is it so much faster than all 
>> other | browsers?  Is it design brilliance, or design choice?  Does 
>> anyone | know?  I wish they all loaded pages as fast.
>> Have you tried Galeon?  It is a great browser.  Probably not as fast as
>> Opera, but the interface, especially the tabbed browsing, is great.
>