Where the hell did this come from?
by AC - permalink
I stumbled onto something surprising this morning. Apparently Anderson Che - the Avant Browser guy - has been working on a new web browser called Orca Browser for nearly a year now. He actually announced this and started open testing in September, but somehow I just never heard about it. In any case, unlike Avant, which is an IE shell, Orca is based on Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine (like K-Meleon, Netscape, SeaMonkey, etc.). The first Orca alpha seems to have been based on the Firefox 1.0.x branch. I'm not sure yet about this morning's release, 1.0 release candidate 3.
First impression: Orca is virtually indistinguishable from Avant, at least from a UI and design perspective. In fact, it seems to refer to itself as Avant Browser way too often for this to be a release candidate. The installer itself is on the bloated side at 6409K, but new Gecko releases are always pretty huge before the code is pared down. I'll play around with Orca Browser some more and tell you how I think it stacks up against Firefox, Opera, and of course Avant.
by AC - permalink
I stumbled onto something surprising this morning. Apparently Anderson Che - the Avant Browser guy - has been working on a new web browser called Orca Browser for nearly a year now. He actually announced this and started open testing in September, but somehow I just never heard about it. In any case, unlike Avant, which is an IE shell, Orca is based on Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine (like K-Meleon, Netscape, SeaMonkey, etc.). The first Orca alpha seems to have been based on the Firefox 1.0.x branch. I'm not sure yet about this morning's release, 1.0 release candidate 3.
First impression: Orca is virtually indistinguishable from Avant, at least from a UI and design perspective. In fact, it seems to refer to itself as Avant Browser way too often for this to be a release candidate. The installer itself is on the bloated side at 6409K, but new Gecko releases are always pretty huge before the code is pared down. I'll play around with Orca Browser some more and tell you how I think it stacks up against Firefox, Opera, and of course Avant.
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