From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 11:17:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1EC37B401 for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 11:17:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80BCC43FAF for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 11:17:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from temperanza@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 29142 invoked by uid 417); 2 Mar 2003 19:17:48 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 2 Mar 2003 19:17:48 -0000 Received: from softhome.net ([63.194.84.111]) (AUTH: PLAIN temperanza@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Sun, 02 Mar 2003 12:17:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3E6258E9.2080802@softhome.net> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 11:18:01 -0800 From: La Temperanza <temperanza@softhome.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [none] References: <bulk.41528.20030302105032@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <bulk.41528.20030302105032@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1047051888.01dff9@mired.org> >Subject: [none] > >In <20030301235244.38089.qmail@web41011.mail.yahoo.com>, edmund jones <edmundj3@yahoo.com> typed: > > >>Thanks so much for your past help. Of course, I have >>another quetion. I've got X up and run Kdesk - coool. >>However, the browser -I haven't configured - debating >>on netscape. That brings me to install or not? >>The bsd ports site mentions that mozilla is >>comparatively large and that bsd\netscape 4.x has a >>security hole and the modules for linux.7x may be >>numerous, NOT TO MENTION TAKING ANY SUBSEQUENT >>OVERLAYS IT MIGHT PRODUCE. So I thought I'd ask what >>you think? I use bsd to emerse myself in a mixed >>network and will ultimately use it as a backend >>router/dns/mail server. Browsing would just be cool. I >>guess what as a novice Iam asking is could I risk >>netscape 4.x (would it compile and install for the >>CDROM or do I risk linux? Nothing earthshaking. >> >> > >Since your only reason for not using mozilla is the size, I'd go with >mozilla. Netscape isn't exactly small itself - even if you only use >netscape-navigator. > >I've also used skipstone, which is a very lightweight browser based on >the Mozilla rendering engine. > If you choose Mozilla, you will probably want to build it (assuming you despise the generic arch packages, like me) with the WITHOUT_MAILNEWS and WITHOUT_COMPOSER defines. They'll significantly decrease its size and compile time. > > <mike >- -- >Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html >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