Browsers (More thread drift)
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 7:33 pm
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Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
sekirt wrote:
|Hope this isn't OT for this thread. :rolleyes:
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WAY too late on that one. 8-)
|an article you might like
|K-Meleon Firefox Comparison and History
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I had thought K-Meleon was based on Firefox.
That item points out that it preceded FF and is based on Netscape.
The upside is that it is built with native Windoze widgets,
so code reuse makes it lighter.
The big downside is that it can't use Firefox extensions.
(I mentioned that to Kiwi when he was looking for a light browser.)
Another obvious downside is that is not cross-platform.
The XUL thing has also been a thorn
for users of SeaMonkey 1.x who wanted to run (XUL-based) Firefox extensions.
With SM2's use of the new engine, that is less of a barrier.
...then there's the memory leaks thing inherent with XUL.
With Google Chrome (and the other browsers based on KHTML/WebKit)
being multi-process--instead of just multi-thread--
browsers descended from Netscape are starting to show their ages.
Even IE8 is multi-process fercrisesake.
Google Chrome has made some recent strides into an extension ecosystem.
When that matures (e.g. a real AdBlock capability[1]),
Gecko-based browsers will have some serious competition.
K-Meleon's roots are even older--and, again, the single-platform thing.
whocares does make the point of how the bundling of IE[2]
stifled progress in browsers for years.
The only way to beat it was with a FREE offering.
(Outside the USA especially) we're seeing that repeated on the OS front.
[1] The current junk for Chrome that purports to "block" stuff
actually downloads it then refuses to display it (hides it);
you still take the bandwidth hit (and pageload delays)
and you still ping all the web bugs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_bug
Whenever Chrome and AdBlock are mentioned together,
the point is always made that Google is an advertising company.
It's obvious why they've been dragging their feet on the extension framework.
The privacy issues are also prominently mentioned--among other irritations
(thus the fork of that Open Source project).
cache
of http://www.security-net.biz/wsw/index.php?p=200&bl=245
Note for 9x users:
WebKit-based browsers work under Linux, OS X, and XP or later.
...though there is an option for 9x users:
http://annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1253992383
[2] The way M$ screwed Spyglass, Inc. in the process
is something more companies would have done well to heed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.
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