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Date:      Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:58:20 -0600
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 64-bit firefox
Message-ID:  <20050810155820.GA4434@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
In-Reply-To: <42F9A76F.9010101@samsco.org>
References:  <200508100427.j7A4RcKi088850@blue.virtual-estates.net> <20050810005042.02b0a1d2.kgunders@teamcool.net> <42F9A76F.9010101@samsco.org>

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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:06:23AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> I've been using Mozilla (the real Mozilla) on FreeBSD/amd64 for several
> months and have had few problems with it.  Despite the wishes of the
> Firefox team to pretend that Firefox is somehow the holy blessed
> browser, you'll have to pry Mozilla from cold, dead hands.  The only
> thing I hate more than Firefox is the thick stench of propaganda
> surrounding it.

For a different perspective, I can't get Mozilla to work on my amd64
box at work, the port hangs while trying to register things during the
install step.  In comparison firefox has worked well for me.  I'm
running 5.4.

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Greg Lewis                          Email   : glewis@eyesbeyond.com
Eyes Beyond                         Web     : http://www.eyesbeyond.com
Information Technology              FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org



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