[ILUG] Anybody using opera.

[Nick Murtagh]

On Wednesday 16 January 2002 18:28, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Nick Murtagh (murtaghn at tcd.ie):
> > I find that netscape 4 is faster and much uglier in rendering terms than
> > mozilla.

i did some unscientific tests 
(ie repeated three times using a wristwatch)

startup time (cached)
---------------------
mozilla 0.97   7 secs
netscape 4.78  5 secs
opera 6.0TP2   7 secs
galeon 1.0.2   4 secs

time to download and render slashdot.org (via a proxy)
------------------------------------------------------
mozilla        2 secs
netscape       1 sec
opera          1 sec
galeon         2 secs

time to download and render www.amazon.com (via a proxy)
--------------------------------------------------------
mozilla        4 secs
netscape       3 secs
opera          4 secs
galeon         5 secs

So i guess claims that any of these browsers are "much faster"
than any of the others are very subjective. Opera seems to 
be the fastest of the browsers that do a decent job of 
rendering (ie not netscape). And I can't see any reason to 
use galeon over mozilla, unless you prefer the inteface.