From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 12 6:35:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7027637B406 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 06:35:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 65154 invoked by uid 100); 12 Aug 2001 13:35:48 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15222.34356.23170.718946@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 08:35:48 -0500 To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Netcape Browser [RANT] In-Reply-To: <74743215@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew C. Hornback types: > Some of us go ahead and disable Java and Javascript because it could pose a > security problem. If you have questions in that regard, I'd advise you to > take it up with www.cert.org unless, of course, you've come up with a fix > for those problems which I think a lot of us would be more than happy if you > would share said fixes. JavaScript is unfixable. Java is generally fixed, but as you said, there's no such thing as perfect software. > > Netscape gets worse with each generation: > > more memory scrooging and the freezes > > occur more frequently. Despite the > > apparent absurdity of the idea, > > *something* gives Netscape the power to > > lock up window managers, crash X, and > > even reboot the entire system on > > occasion. There's stability for you. You know, I here people say the same thing about MSIE on Windows. > I'd love to find a Solaris admin with the cajones to run IE on his system. > I find that whole idea extremely comical. I've done it. The only advantage this has over running it on Windows it that when IE crashes - as it inevitably does - it doesn't bring down the entire box with it. > > The advice given to me > > in my thread "Web Browsers (is there hope?)" was > > to use Windows to surf the Net. > If you like IE that well, why not use Windows? Even better, why not > download Solaris 8 from Sun and run IE on it? It seems to be your browser > of choice, and no one is stopping you from doing either of the above. When I tried it, IE was only available for Solaris on Sparc. If that's changed, I'd be interested in a pointer. If you've got a sparc, it might be worth checking out whether (Net|Open)BSD have a Solaris API that you could try it on. > As I mentioned before... you don't seem to like any of the available web > client software packages out there, so why not write your own? If you're > that bound and determined to raise a fuss over this and not contribute > anything useful to correcting these problems, why not do it yourself? Because he's a hungry troll. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message