On "Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:46:19 +0000", Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>> > 4.7 is markedly faster than Mozilla 0.7 on Linux/PPC, and faster than
>> > Netscape 6 under MacOS.
>> > I would expect the same under Solaris.
>>
>> really?  that's pathetic.  4.7x is a bloated pig, i thought since they
>started
>> over one of the plans was to make it not a bloated pig anymore.  guess i
>was
>> wrong.  but the source is freely available, so all you *BSD nutjobs[1]
>will get
>> it running on PDP-8e and sun1 hardware, so it'll get more efficient.  :)
>
>LOL :)
>
>On this subject, is there any Mozilla based browser in the ports
>collection which uses the Gecko engine without all that shite stuck
>around the edges?  I know there are a few about - I just havent seen
>a NetBSD/sparc one yet.  Konqueror is a bit heavy too.  The words
>SPARC and Classic and 50MHz should scare you into thinking how
>efficient this needs to be, or how mad I am :P

That's what my mom has....  I've got a 70 MHz SPARC 4 myself.

>I'm tempted to learn some more C and write my own because the
>browser situation is getting even *more* terrible.

I've been putting together a development plan for writing one from
scratch.  It'll likely take years though.
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