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Re:NetSurf: Small, fast, free web browser by necessity on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @05:12AM (#10418187)
It doesn't even support CSS2 properly (e.g. paragraph justification, em, etc). And despite claims of being blazing fast, as an user my experience is that it is very slow for more complicated pages, whereas for websites that are almost just plain text and images it beats any WebKit/Gecko browser out there.

It's great for Googling when debugging your code or reading HN when compiling, other than that I'd stick with <your favorite browser>.

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Re:NetSurf: Small, fast, free web browser by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:52AM (#10418427)
> And despite claims of being blazing fast, as an user my experience is that it is very slow for more complicated pages, whereas for websites that are almost just plain text and images it beats any WebKit/Gecko browser out there.

I downloaded it and tried it. Every page loads very slowly, even incredibly simple sites. Maybe it has a slow HTTP implementation?

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