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PS>> Mozilla and Firebird are not Netscape. Netscape occasionally PS>> takes the Mozilla source code and makes a new Netscape release PS>> out of it. CA> I've read the Netscape/Mozilla webpages claiming to be independent CA> and noted, at that time, that financial support for both came from CA> AOL. I have no interest in a war of words when the CA> inter-relationships are so very obvious (to me). netscape 4.76 on my Redhat system identiifies itself to the server as Mozilla. there may be a spot where I can change that but It's not obvious and I haven't RTFM. PS>> And there, Firebird is a really nice browser because it is more PS>> lightweight than Mozilla, CA> At a time when 20gig hard drives are considered small I don't CA> think the 8.4 meg difference is a reason to prefer one over the CA> other. if it saves 8.4 megs of ram that could make a difference. CA> I see some indication of 'fast' but a part of this is in how the CA> pages are displayed and how tables are resolved for the 'final' CA> display. "Fast" is one of the difference a smaller ram footprint can give. -=> Bye <=- ---* Origin: Entropy isn't what it used to be. (3:640/1042) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 @PATH: 640/1042 531 954 774/605 123/500 106/2000 633/267 |
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