[ale] Mozilla Firebird is pretty cool

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Sun Apr 27 15:56:56 EDT 2003


Think lightweight fast browser only application. Mozilla will be the
full-blown browser, mail, newsgroup, coffee-maker, handwarmer, web site
mangler. Firebird is going to be a fast, embedable browser.

On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 15:40, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Will Firebird replace the existing Mozilla 1.4 or is it a different
> animal all together?
> 
> Thus spake James P. Kinney III (jkinney at localnetsolutions.com):
> 
> > I finally got around to looking at the Mozilla Phoenix (now Mozilla
> > Firebird) project. That is one screaming fast render job for a browser.
> > It is noticably faster than Mozilla or Galeon on putting the page on the
> > screen. I compared loading the same freshmeat page and slashdot page on
> > each browser and the difference was substantial. I don't have scientific
> > numbers as I didn't use a timer script (yet). 
> > -- 
> > James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
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> > 
> > GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
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> 
> 
> 
> :wq!
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CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

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