__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Thursday 06 July 2006 20:00 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John Bailo
> <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:16:28 -0700
> <4sidnac_qZnBqjDZnZ2dnUVZ_rCdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> A Firefox PC operating system?
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | It's not the first time the question of a Firefox operating system has
>>> | come up, and it surely won't be the last. On stage at Gnomedex, Ross
>>> | acknowledged Livingston's comments and moved on without addressing
>>> | them directly.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/104739.asp?source=rss
>>>
>>> ...Makes that Google O/S speculation (Goobutu, among others) return to
>>> life. Maybe they could 'pull a SLED', just like Novell, owing to re-use.
>>> Google has tight relationships with the Mozilla Foundation...
>>
>> That was the beginning of the end for Netscape...getting away from a
>> small lite browser and trying to build all the infrastructure under it.
>>
>> Same for the over-integrated, browser as .dll that IE is.
>>
>> Firefox proved that a browser is a browser.
>>
>> It should browse the web, fast and easily.
>>
>> No matter what it runs on.
>>
>
> Try Dillo or Lynx. Firefox may be fast, but not *that* fast. ;-)
Opera is faster than Fox. It is among the fastest Web browsers, if not the
fastest. It's highly dependent on the experiment. I believe table rendering
is the one I had in mind. Launch time, as well as other factors, are
non-trivial to 'blend' sensibly.
Best wishes,
Roy
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