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An Even Faster Browser?

Posted by Cliff on from the living-up-to-the-hype dept.

octavian755 asks: "Seems that a 16-year-old Irish student has created an Internet browser called XWEB, which is the fastest browser known to date. This browser is said to be capable of boosting surfing speeds on a dial-up connection by 100 to 500 percent. What I would like to know is something like this even possible?" Update: 01/20 07:30 GMT by C : As folks have pointed out, this story is a duplicate. Also, a minor title gaffe corrected. Sorry about that.

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  1. It's so fast... by Hubert_Shrump · · Score: 5, Funny

    It warps time, and reports itself again!

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    Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
  2. Hey Cliff by presearch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey Cliff.
    You oughta, like, read Slashdot more often.

  3. /. & vacations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nice to know that I'd be able to go on vacation, come back to /. and see everything I missed reposted.

  4. And I bet he did it... by Cinematique · · Score: 2, Funny

    In a small codebase, too. Take that, Mozilla! First KHTML, now a single 16-year old boy! And people think Microsoft produces bloated software. /me runs and hides ;)

  5. Re:Already Covered on /. by jsse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Calm down, I see the differences:

    1) This is posted by Cliff, last time it was posted by Hemos. Isn't it a pity when those who blocked Cliff's or Hemos missed this great news? The news will be reposted by Taco very soon, so he majority who blocked both Cliff and Hemos will not miss it
    2) Last time we don't have typo in the headline. This is very untolerable for slashdot readers
    3) This time we've same article from other source. Slashdot editors must make sure they don't miss any reference to great news like that
    4) Last time Hemos said 'Quadruples Surfing Speed', today Cliff found out that it can actually boost the speed up to 500% percent! This is definitely an improvement and should be posted as a follow-up

  6. Re:deja vu by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn this is a recent repeat.
    Not even any more info either. I'm sure all of us would like to examine this browser just to see if it is true.

    More info: http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/01/14.html
    Even has every media player: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/ 2003/01/13/190872
    http://www.esatbtyoungscientist .com/

    Uh-oh. It's deja vu all over again. Someone call Yogi Berra...

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    "Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
  7. It's easy making it faster by skinfitz · · Score: 3, Funny

    All you do is supply a cached copy of the entire web with the browser, then when on a dialup, all it does it look at the site URL and serve the page up from the cache.

    Easy!

  8. karmaho'ing by bolind · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, just find all the highmodded posts from the last time this story was on /., and post them again for instant karma... hey, here's my take:

    "It's just Mozilla; it seems to cache the entire web during the build process."