Try Opera for Linux... On the other hand, I'll try myself...

Chris Midkiff

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bradley Miller [SMTP:bradmiller@dslonramp.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 19, 2000 5:34 PM
> To:	kclug@kclug.org
> Subject:	kclug - Informal tests ... speed of browsers?
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> Ok, these are pretty informal, two runs back to back (within 30
> minutes)
> and except for the Opera tests (50K), all 500K.  This is what I found:
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> Testing against Netscape/Linux P200:
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> Win95/Opera/Laptop	Win95/IE/Laptop  Netscape/Linux P200	NT/IE
> 4.0/400
> 	20% faster	  -5% slower		57% faster
> 48% faster
> 
> Laptop = P75 Laptop with 24Mb memory / PCMCIA ethernet card
> 400 = P2-400Mhz with 128Mb memory
> P200 = P-200 Mhz with 48Mb memory 
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> This is by no means a scientific test . . . the results change all the
> time.  I did factor in the time of day . . . and at the last test
> (5:20PM
> or so) the Linux box on Netscape came back with 1568.6 Kbps and
> 192.2K/sec.  
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> -- Bradley Miller
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