Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 11/30/73 11:47

GreyWyvern wrote:
> And lo, Jonathan N. Little didst speak in
> alt.html,alt.html.critique,alt.www.webmaster:
>
>> Firefox by design is not supposed to do everything 'out of the box'
>> but to be lean and stable. If you want added functionality then add it
>> via an extension. There you only add what you need or want and nothing
>> more. The answer to 'bloatware'.
>
> WRT to the "bloatware" label, I feel compelled to point out that Opera
> with the zoom feature (and many, many others for which Firefox requires
> extensions) is a 20% smaller download than Firefox without.

My bloatware remark was really directed towards IE, however I here
remarks 'but Firefox doesn't do...' when there is a readily available
extension. As to size comparisons, I admit the *download* of Firefox is
larger than Opera, but not the final install! Opera guys must use better
compression on their installer because my Opera 21.9MB vs Firefox 20.7MB

>
> This is not bashing Firefox, but your reasoning seemed to imply that
> Firefox's commitment to reducing bloat through extensions automatically
> made it less bloated than Opera. This is not the case.

Both are very good products, and far superior to IE. I personally have
not witnessed the slowdown in FF1.5x as some folks have, maybe because
I'm on Win2k and not XP, who knows.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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