Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Sep 2006 23:13 UTC
"Today, the Mozilla organization is preparing to release the first release candidate for version 2 of their popular Firefox web browser. Firefox 2 RC1 is available in binary form for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X (the latter a Universal Binary for both PPC and Intel systems). The Windows download comes in at 5.7 MB and runs on Windows 98, ME, NT 4, 2000, or XP. It ran without issue on my copy of Windows Vista RC1."
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Member since:2006-01-26
Well of course it's "bloated" - the entire UI is just a bunch of non-compressed javascript/xml/rdf lumped into .jar files - all interpreted at runtime by the Gecko/XUL engine...
Considering that, any native-compiled browser SHOULD be smaller and "faster" (by a magnitude).
RE Opera: I personally would prefer the open-source, extensible browser myself.
Edited 2006-09-27 00:46
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Member since:2005-12-25
"RE Opera: I personally would prefer the open-source, extensible browser myself. "
You use "the" there as if Mozilla was the only such one.
- khtml
- tkhtml
- ...various others...
Although perhaps this depends on what you mean by "extensible". In a way, every open-source application is extensible.
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2005-10-02
It's the download that is 5.7 MB (the actual size is 18.7 MB _after_ installation - and that's a clean installation). It's bloated.
BTW: K-Meleon goes at 15.2 MB - a bit larger than the Mozilla ActiveX Control.
Edited 2006-09-27 00:39