Re: [Sheflug] netscape 6

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Will Newton wrote:

> I have a CVS snapshot of konqueror (KDE filemanager/browser) that make
> syou wonder what Netscape have actually been doing. Features:
> 
> - NS plugin compatability - Flash, Real Player etc.
> - Java (Uses the IBM JVM on my machine, can use Sun)
> - ECMA/Java/JScript
> - CSS 1 and most of 2
> 
> A much smaller memory footprint (although with the way KDE works, it's
> hard to be exact about it), a smaller download size (it's part of kdebase,
> and the src.rpm is only a few Mb and it contains most of a desktop too)
> and better stability than NS. It uses themable Qt and it's open source
> (don't tell RMS).
> 
> It does kind of force you to use KDE though, which I suppose is the
> main problem with it. But then, KDE is probably only as big as NSPR. :)

I've run Konq in icewm without any major problems.Konq seems very slow at
times, certainly it's at least as fast as Nutscrape 4.6 but 6 shows it a
clean pair of heels, while basking in the exhaust of Opera disappearing
into the distance.

It does make you wonder where almost 3 years went, though.
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