Orca Browser

Orca Browser

A brief background: My first access to the Internet was through my elementary school’s network. All computers were loaded with Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, and I always went for IE. Netscape was bloated, slow, and the screen filled with useless clutter.Despite trying other browsers slowly over time, they were always slower and had toolbars and icons hogging too much screen space, leaving IE tops.

That is, until a later investigations of what was available. My first full browser switch was to Avant; based on the Trident (IE) engine, it was tabbed and featured a boatload of customizations and perhaps most importantly, featured “Compact Mode” cramming everything into a minimized space.

Being increasingly interested in computers and web development, it became increasingly clear that Internet Explorer itself was a liability. Merely using it put your computer at risk due to ActiveX, so IE and Trident-based browsers were out, and I haven’t used on for any significance since. I jumped to Dr. Orca, later Orca Browser, which was the Gecko (Mozilla) engine based version of Avant. Due to technical issues I moved on to find K-Meleon, which I used daily right up until just recently.

Where was I going with all this? Avant was always the most streamlined, fully featured and elegant of any browser. Orca just hadn’t gotten the development time to be stable and as well-polished. Well, guess what?

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