http://technopedia.info/tech/2006/08/11/browser-wars-whos-fighting-who.html The Matrix of Technology Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:53:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://technopedia.info/tech/2006/08/11/browser-wars-whos-fighting-who.html/comment-page-1#comment-5494 Tom Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:43:37 +0000 http://technopedia.info/tech/2006/08/11/browser-wars-whos-fighting-who.html#comment-5494 I have an old WIN98 system I got for free back in 1999 from http://www.freepc.com and am still using it (I have upgraded to a 550mhz chip). I discovered Firefox in Nov. 2004 and used it until about March 2006. I found various extensions significantly impacted my system performance and got tired of trying to figure out the right permutations to keep my broadband acting like broadband. I switched to Opera 9.0 (beta at the time) and found my speeds increased but things still were not “lightning fast” as various people make references of their browsers. I peaked at Flock but it was as slow as Firefox. I recently made the switch to K-meleon 1.01, a mozilla based browser designed for Windows. My load speeds are finally “lightning fast” (as much as a 550 mzh chip can be). I am very pleased. Configuring the broswer is a bit awkward and the themes for the new version are a bit limited (older themes for the pre-1.0 release seem to make it crash) but once it is set up it has much of the basic functionality of Firefox and/or Opera. I think I’ll stick with K-Meleon for a while.

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