Re: Why no Opera?
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:23:05AM -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org> writes:
>
> > and there's precedent with the netscape communicator packages from the
> > pre-mozilla days. These were statically linked against several things
> > afaik, motif iirc.
>
> One of the reasons to go to such lengths for Netscape was that at the time
> there really was no competitor that could do the same things. That isn't
> the case any more. I have friends who love Opera and swear by it, but
> even they wouldn't say that Opera is somehow dramatically different than
> Firefox or some other Gecko-based browser. It's now more a matter of
> preference than the only piece of software in the field.
Actually Opera is way faster and lighter than Firefox.
Fortunately, WebKit is coming</outrageous_publicity>
Mike
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