"Fastest Browser On Earth" Cuts Crud

gabec writes "The guys at Opera have been rewriting their rendering engine over the past 18 months, tossing out legacy code and making the browser more DOM compliant with the intention of making the self-proclaimed "fastest browser on earth" even faster. They claim to have succeeded, according to this article on ZDNet.. Fun stuff.. ;)"

Fastest Bowser on Earth

[TheDick]

More impressive.

Gotta stop mixing Dayquil and Nyquil.

5th post

[Anonymous Coward]

5th post because I'm using Internet Explorer, the slowest browser on Earth.

Re:Fastest Bowser on Earth

[Anonymous Coward]

+2 informative? Oh yeah, mods on crack, it's well known!

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Lynx

[Dr. Awktagon]

is it faster than Lynx?

Re:The truth

[unicron]

Yeah, I love it. I'd probably laugh if it wasn't so pathetically sad. Everyone I know that actually runs Linux/Mozilla and knows what they're doing(i.e., not a 12 year who installed Redhat off a bootable CD and considers himself "a linux user") completely agrees that I.E. is a great browser.

What's also funny is the ammo mozilla/opera users use in their arguments:

I.E. user: The compatibility with today's plugins and scripting languages is unparalled.

Mozilla/Opera user: We have pop-up killing!

I.E. user: The image renderer is awesome.

Mozilla/Opera user: We have pop-up killing!

I.E. user: Not to mention that while an open standard is best, you will find most webpages catered to users running I.E.

Mozilla/Opera user: We have pop-up killing!

I.E. user: You got a lot of pop-ups, don't you?

Mozilla/Opera user: All day, everyday, wall to wall pr0n and warez sites.

I.E. user: My god....

Mozilla/Opera user: 1337!

Re:I've fallen in love with Opera, but...

[Hayzeus]

So students get 100% off?

Screw "platforms"

[RatBastard]

I don't want a "platform", that's what my OS is for. I want a web browser. I don't want a bunch of useless shit clogging up what shiould be a small and nimble program. I don't want email or news on my broswer, I've got programs that were DESIGNED for those jobs and do them much better than any bolted on afterthought I've seen on browsers.

This, IMHO, is what screwed Netscape into the ground - the idiotic desire to not be just a wen broswer, but to be a platform for accessing everything on the Net. It turned Netscape 3.x, a lithe and nimble program, and turned it into the bloated, slow, anf buggy monster that was Netscape 4.x.

If what you want is a "platform", use AOL.