Now it is so much more matured and stable – Galeon – buggy and unstable, not sure whether it was fast in the first place. Now, they are faster, less buggy, but still takes a long time to load. – Netscape Communicator 4.7, slow, unstable, buggy, the only app using Lesstif. I’m downloading 6.01, I’m sure its great, and hopefully one annoying bug i encountered would be fixed.īut why I choosed Opera? At the time Opera 5 for Linux came out, there was these choices for me Opera is the best browser for Linux, like it or not. If they want to roll out their own browser good for them, I wish them all the best, just don’t integrate it into the OS e.g: turn Finder into a web browser. After that, it doesn’t matter to me what browser is pre-installed on a Mac. My point is Apple needs to get rid of all traces of IE, first and foremost. I guess some people here are debating on which browser is better, and that’s fine because we all know what we’re doing and we are able to pick and choose what browser we want to use. Simple minded people will just use what’s there and stick with it, 80+ % of the time it’s an AOL web broswer and I got that 80+ figure from a friend who hosts a number of web sites.
I don’t think it’s important that Apple have their own default web browser that ships with every Mac and is there out of the box. So, even if they don’t go with Chimera, I am just fine with it, it even makes business sense.įor the non techie, average user, typical Mac user, do you think they care what broswer is on thier computer? For this kind of person, they’ll fire up AOL and use whatever browser AOL gives them, and lately it looks like Netscape. Putting myself in an… exec position at Apple, I would prefer to have absolute control over the browser. Better do it right this time.Īs a user and friend of the open source movement, I would much prefer them to use Chimera. That would be the reason that would leave IE behind anyway. Konqueror is as slow when antialias is on, on my dual Celeron 533.Īlso, there is another reason why Apple should get its own browser and not collaborate on Chimera: control. Chimera can’t do it, because of its antialias. Mozilla can apply CSS to all the mouseovers you do, no matter how fast or slow you do it. Not all the links are getting hovered and applied the CSS. The fact that I can’t turn off antialias on Chimera really bothers me, and it is the reason that makes Chimera many times slower.Īnd get your mouse fast-ish on top of the links.
Mozilla itself is FASTER than Chimera in rendering text. At least it is on the G4 Cube 450 Mhz I got here.