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Re: How will Netscape/AOL Merger Affect Us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick)
Tue Nov 24 14:43:47 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 12:38:37 -0700 (MST)
From: Patrick <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981124110003.lsumpter@bchgate.bchydro.bc.ca>
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
> > Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
> >> and more. So if Version 5 is even bigger and uglier - so what? I'm not going
> >> to use it, anyway!
> >
> > Doubtfull this will be the case. NS 5.0 will be one of the most compact,
> > efficient, and tightly coded browsers(dare I say pieces of software)
> > ever!
> > http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/
[...]
> So you're saying that NS 5 is, say, under 4 MB, loads in under 10 seconds on
> a K6/166, and runs in 8 MB?
> Requiring 32 MB is OK if that's the only program you're running (true, most
> of us have at least 32 MB these days). But try running at the same time as,
> say, Star Office, gimp, x-emacs, gcc, and gnu-chess (as I often do!), and see
> how well it runs!
Well, some of this isn't quite fair. StarOffice is, itself, incredibly
bloated with it OWN web browser, email client, and newsreader. It WOULD
be nice if Netscape and StarDivision (and others, for that matter) made
MODULAR software so that I could install JUST the wordprocessor and
graphics components but skip the stuff I don't need or don't want. If
that was done, then the apps would not automatically be extra bloated.
patrick
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