OSNews > Thread > "RE[4]: 5.7MB?" by umccullough

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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RE[4]: 5.7MB?

by umccullough on Wed 27th Sep 2006 00:45 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: 5.7MB?"

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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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RE[5]: 5.7MB?

by dylansmrjones on Wed 27th Sep 2006 00:49 in reply to "RE[4]: 5.7MB?"

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2005-10-02

I imagine the Gecko-engine is the biggest part considering the size of the ActiveX control.

I mean Firefox2 is larger than MorphOS or AmigaOS4

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RE[6]: 5.7MB?

by umccullough on Wed 27th Sep 2006 00:55 in reply to "RE[5]: 5.7MB?"

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My FF 1.5 install is only about 8-9mb of binaries and 6-7mb of jar files/.js files

Update: It appears the binaries for FF 2 RC1 are less than 1mb larger than FF 1.5

Edited 2006-09-27 01:03

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RE[5]: 5.7MB?

by vegai on Wed 27th Sep 2006 08:36 in reply to "RE[4]: 5.7MB?"

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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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RE[6]: 5.7MB?

by umccullough on Wed 27th Sep 2006 16:29 in reply to "RE[5]: 5.7MB?"

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You use "the" there as if Mozilla was the only such one.

Nope, I was only comparing the two - as a couple comments prior to mine had mentioned that Opera was "better"... but thanks for pointing it out

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