Re: OT: CXS chart and machine-readable Unicode->CXS mappings

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:29:13PM +0000, Joe wrote:
> H. S. Teoh wrote:
[snip]
> >In my experience, Opera beats Netscape 6 & 7 hands down. Although the
> >re-engineered Mozilla is an amazingly versatile platform, I've yet to see
> >anything that beats Opera in terms of size/usability ratio. And speed. I
> >am highly annoyed by the need to install 100MB (or however big Mozilla is
> >nowadays) tarballs only to find out it takes 2 MINUTES to render a simple
> >webpage on my old PII 333MHz. Especially when the same job is done better,
> >faster, and with less resources by a browser like Opera.
[...]
> Firefox(for Linux) is around 7MB.  It's also pretty damn fast, and
> versatile.  Also good for displaying several character sets at once.
> I'd like to recommend it.
It's not really 7MB, since it requires the installation of extra libraries
on my system which add up to about 30MB or so. (Yes I'm a minimalist.)
Regardless, maybe I should give it a try sometime. For the time being,
though, since I've purchased Opera, I'll likely stick with it for a while.


T

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