[DUG] Delphi on Linux

[Rob van der Linde]

Actually, when I said that (no kidding) part, I was actually praising
Firefox on how good it's Gecko engine really is, I was not trying to put
it down at all, I meant that Firefox is actually very fast considering
it is written in Javascript, I think they have done a wonderful job. I
fully realise how difficult it is to write a cross platform engine like
that and have the highest respect towards Mozilla.

Actually, that's note quite why Firefox is slower to load than IE. You
need to remember that IE is built into Windows and it actually starts
when Windows starts. I have once ready that if you take IE out of the
Windows shell (I am not sure if you can still do this), then IE will
actually take much longer to load, so we have to be fair here. Firefox
actually only takes a long time to start on first load. I have a gig of
ram, and second load it starts much faster. A P4 or Athlon optimised
build can help lots too.

But if it's fast startup time you want, check out Opera, it's another
great browser, fully standards compliant too, and free, it starts up
quicker than Firefox though, but it just isn't me, a lot of people like
it however.

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 11:53 +1200, Phil Scadden wrote:
> > Firefox and Thunderbird are written in Javascript (no kidding), and the
> > UI is done with XUL. The whole thing simply runs on an "engine" called
> > Gecko, which handles (X)HTML, XUL, CSS, Javascript, etc.
> 
> Oh, that why it is such a dog to load. Could be worse - Oracle's java clients
> are a great for illustrating why you want compiled executables.
> 
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