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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Why don't more people use Orca?
In my personal tests the last couple of nights, Orca has the lightest memory footprint and loads pages fast. How fast? Faster than Firefox, Opera, K-Meleon, Avant, IE, etc.
It uses the same Modern Gecko engine that Firefox, K-Meleon, and others use so websites load nicely, and it has several features build into the browser that Firefox users can only gain by adding add-ons to their browser. Talking about ad blockers, mouse gestures and autofilling forms among other things. The layout looks cleaner and is slimmer than that of Firefox 3, even with an installed Tiny Menu add-on, that plus it natively supports Firefox extensions. It's quickly become my new default browser.
In case you're wondering, Internet Explorer-based TheWorld browser came in second place in terms of speed and memory footprint - I'll keep it around just in case.
It uses the same Modern Gecko engine that Firefox, K-Meleon, and others use so websites load nicely, and it has several features build into the browser that Firefox users can only gain by adding add-ons to their browser. Talking about ad blockers, mouse gestures and autofilling forms among other things. The layout looks cleaner and is slimmer than that of Firefox 3, even with an installed Tiny Menu add-on, that plus it natively supports Firefox extensions. It's quickly become my new default browser.
In case you're wondering, Internet Explorer-based TheWorld browser came in second place in terms of speed and memory footprint - I'll keep it around just in case.