[olug] Browser Benchmarking

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

T. J. Brumfield wrote:
> And the Linux version is going to use GTK.  GTK is why Firefox on
> Linux is so slow and cumbersome, and has absolutely terrible file
> dialogs.
> 
> The Linux Chromium team said that GTK was the official toolkit of
> Linux.  Sheesh.
> 
> If it had been developed on Qt from day one (Qt has native bindings to
> Webkit!  It makes incredible sense!) then it would have been
> multiplatform from day one.  And we'd be running it on Mac and Linux
> today.  It would be faster than the GTK version they are making, and
> the code would be easier to maintain than three seperate platform
> forks in the future.

No love for FLTK or GNUstep?


Tim

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