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by Sheila Lennon
'Bottom-up' journalism from the pros

May 29, 2002 • Today's weblog

Bloatware: I asked last week, "Except for NS7 being a 30 meg download while Mozilla is less than 10 megs, is this merely a choice of features? Why would I use NS rather than Mozlla for ordinary browsing and email?"

The question has been answered by David Hyatt, whom The Register describes as "a member of the Netscape/AOL project and long-time Mac nut, whose blog attacks both the creeping featurism of the Mozilla process, and the portalitis of his employer."

Hyatt writes in his MozillaZine blog, "Mozilla is chock full of cool features, an awesome layout engine, and (on Windows and Linux at least) is now doing quite well in terms of performance and footprint. It's clearly a browser worth using.

"Netscape 7 also has all of these cool features, the same awesome layout engine, and is comparable to Mozilla in performance and footprint. It does take away a feature or two, like popup blocking, but it also adds a useful feature or two, like spellchecking. The problem is that Netscape 7 is also loaded with useless marketing junk, and this is where the trouble starts."
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