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I don't know.... I really like Babya Explorer.
Vrodok the Troll said:On 21 Feb 2004 18:23:46 GMT, in alt.comp.freeware, donutbandit
Vrodok the Troll said:On 21 Feb 2004 18:23:46 GMT, in alt.comp.freeware, donutbandit
On 22 Feb 2004 22:18:37 +0800, Aaron
NO! Say it ain't so! Hehehe
I already know that.
And the Firefox extensions are small too. If they stood alone, they
would be, er, Firefox. If my aunt had cajones, she would be my uncle.
And the bloat begins.
Firefox is only a baby and it's already 25% the
size of IE.
Since it's open source, I'm sure there will always be
"light" versions available from rebellious bloat fighters (such as
K-Meleon does for Mozilla).
I still say functionality and features add little bloat compared to
the browser engine.
Bob
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Yes, that was my point, that explains how small IE shells are. But unlike
myie2 where you just download the IE shell, most users of Firefox will have
to download the browser engine as well. For users on dialup, adding more
extensions/features that they may or may not use, might discourage them
from even trying.
Also you can define "bloat" by more than size of the download. The more
features you include that are not used, the more complicated the program,
the slower it is and the more bugs can occur.
I use both of those regularly & they haven't found a thing regarding
Avant.
Or much of anything, actually, since I'm also running SpywareGuard &
StartUpMonitor as well as a hardware fiewall, a software firewall &
anti-virus.
And yes, I keep them all up to date.
That was my ONLY point. I don't know how we got into such a heavy
discussion on things we agree upon.
I still say that "Options and settings" add almost nothing to Windows
bloat or file size.
Once the Firefox application is finished, and the debug code removed,
it will be hefty... probably on the order of 15MB. This is almost half
of IE's massive download. (much of which is OS related).
A large pack
of extensions would probably be no more than 1-2MB more, and will add
immensely to the bare bones of Firefox. I do not consider this bloat
for all the extra functionality you will get.
pre-packaged enhanced versions, because people expect things to work
without downloading extensions and plugins.
Bob
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Aaron said:K-Meleon is an open-source browser based on Gecko, the rendering
engine for Mozilla. It is intended to be a light, fast, and
customizable browse like Firefox, yes but other than that it is no
more or less a bloat fighter than Firefox.
It's main advanatage over Firefox is that it's designed only for
windows unlike Firefox which is cross platform and is a little faster
and smaller. But it will still never be as small as a IE shell, since
like Firefox it needs the gecko engine.
Beats me. How does one tell?Are you protected against this?
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9658/discussion/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9658/exploit/
I don't know.... I really like Babya Explorer.
I'm just curious as to what you consider to be all the "AOL crap" bolted
onto Netscape?
- - - - - - - -I use Netscape 7.1 and it certainly does not have any AOL crap bolted to
it. However, it does run better than any of the Mozilla browsers, including
Firefox, and actually knows how to sort it's bookmarks!
Beats me. How does one tell?
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