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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. Not only.... by jag164 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    point 1) Bad Grammer in the article title. "A even..." Shouldn't this be "An even..."???

    point 2) Another slashdot duplicate. How fucking pathetic are the editors here??? (there go my moderator points)

    point 3) Last time we discussed this, most technical people wrote this off as a joke.. No I don't need to read this article, I need to see proof.

  2. deja vu by nightherper · · Score: 1, Redundant
    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/

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  3. Lowering slashdot standards by mnmn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not only this is a repeat AND a scam, its a very lousy one. Wording like every possible media player sounds crap and puts off any really technically minded person reading this. Hey I can write an article that claims I made a version of Linux that runs windows binaries natively and has every driver on the planet, can I get that posted on slashdot??

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