Re: galeon..

[David B.Harris <dbarclay10@yahoo.ca>]

To quote Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>,
# Isn't galeon just a "front-end" for mozilla ?? If so, the memory leak
# will likely still be there. By the way, you do know that galeon
# *requires* mozilla to be installed, right ??

Hoping to avoid starting a flamewar here, Mozilla isn't a browser. It's
more than a browser. It's damned near its own platform. If it was "just
a browser", which is what most Linux people want, it'd be dead before it
ever hit the market. IE is a browser, and it's a good one - there's
relatively little over IE that Mozilla could offer if it was just a
browser.

Anyways, Galeon just uses Gecko, the Mozilla rendering engine. Since
Mozilla has a pretty darned fast(and relatively complete) rendering
engine, this is a good thing. Mozilla is slow mostly in the UI
department(and boy, is it SLOW!). Galeon is GTK+/GNOME based, of course,
and it's quite a bit faster. It doesn't use XUL nor does it generate all
its interfaces on the fly(actually, I think it uses libglade, so that's
no quite right).

I'd say it's at least as fast as Netscape, and definetly faster than
Konqueror. It's not quite feature-complete yet, but it's getting there.

David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay
    Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)