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Date:      Fri, 1 Nov 2002 23:34:03 -0500
From:      Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Opera for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20021102043403.GB51668@laptop.lambertfam.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021101220924.X6566-100000@dumpster.io.com>
References:  <20021102032954.GA51668@laptop.lambertfam.org> <20021101220924.X6566-100000@dumpster.io.com>

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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:10:38PM -0600, Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Scott Lambert wrote:
> 
> > It has a lot of bugs.  I registered it anyway.  Opera will fix the bugs
> > if they make money.  We need to vote with our wallets.  I'm sick and
> > tired of these 40MB gzipped source downloads for a fricking web browser.
> 
>          What Opera did you install?  The one in ports is a piece of
>          bloatware that loads slower than Netscape.

Both Opera 6.10 for Linux and FreeBSD in ports are less 4.5MB downloads
statically compiled with qt.  How can that be bloatware compared to
Netscape > v. 3.x?  Both versions load in half the time or less of what it
takes Mozilla 6.1 or Galeon to load on my 650 Celeron laptop.

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert@lambertfam.org      

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