Well, I downloaded Opera and played for a while. My impressions:
1. It is FAST. It beats the crap out of Netscape4 I use now in Linux.
2. My current version of Netscape is almost as unstable as this early beta version of Opera.
3. It is amazing Opera is only ~5Mb.
4. I has (or will have) everything I need from a web browser.
I really wish Mozilla development team concentrated on a simple web browser and left alone all bells and whistles. Really, how many of us use Netscape mail? Pine is much better for me.
Whatever happened to the initial goal of Mozilla team to make a browser that fits on a floppy? Sorry to say, but Opera beat them in here. (OK, Gekko fits on a floppy, but the ENTIRE Opera fits on a floppy - or almost fits).
Mozilla becoming a ~20Mb source code monstrosity. Can anybody tell me what is it about a web browser (plus all imaginable bells and whistles) that makes its source code bigger that the source code for the entire Linux Kernel? Should any application be more complex than a full featured operating system?
One of my friends made this surgery some time ago. For the life of mine, I couldn't squeeze out of him his opinion about it. Ditto for two other friends. My guess it is not a miracle cure.
There's a rumor after a while the vision starts to drop quite rapidly for some people after the surgery.
My eyesight is far from perfect, but I am not going to do the surgery. All other reasons aside, one needs to be easy on one's eyes for about 6 months, which means no computers or books. I can't imaging my life without them. Oh, and no physical activities also.
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My impressions:
1. It is FAST. It beats the crap out of Netscape4 I use now in Linux.
2. My current version of Netscape is almost as unstable as this early beta version of Opera.
3. It is amazing Opera is only ~5Mb.
4. I has (or will have) everything I need from a web browser.
I really wish Mozilla development team concentrated on a simple web browser and left alone all bells and whistles. Really, how many of us use Netscape mail? Pine is much better for me.
Whatever happened to the initial goal of Mozilla team to make a browser that fits on a floppy? Sorry to say, but Opera beat them in here. (OK, Gekko fits on a floppy, but the ENTIRE Opera fits on a floppy - or almost fits).
Mozilla becoming a ~20Mb source code monstrosity.
Can anybody tell me what is it about a web browser (plus all imaginable bells and whistles) that makes its source code bigger that the source code for the entire Linux Kernel? Should any application be more complex than a full featured operating system?
I am sure this issue has been raised before.
I submitted this news about 3 weeks ago. Hardly anything that's been on the Internet for three weeks could be qualified as "news".
Eugene.
Why was he nominated? Did I miss something? What does he have to do with free software?
Eugene.
One of my friends made this surgery some time ago. For the life of mine, I couldn't squeeze out of him his opinion about it. Ditto for two other friends. My guess it is not a miracle cure.
There's a rumor after a while the vision starts to drop quite rapidly for some people after the surgery.
My eyesight is far from perfect, but I am not going to do the surgery. All other reasons aside, one needs to be easy on one's eyes for about 6 months, which means no computers or books. I can't imaging my life without them. Oh, and no physical activities also.
Eugene.