Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:37:06 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web Browsers (Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT) Message-ID: <nospam-1016354226.13888@bambi.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <20020316114418.B95652@dragon.nuxi.com> of Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:44:18 PST References: <20020315205228.V32037-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <20020316034126.2DA6CBA05@i8k.babbleon.org> <200203160426.g2G4QKH02078@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <xzpwuwdw19y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020316114418.B95652@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 06:05:13AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
| > Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> writes:
| > > What problems do you have with it?
| >
| > Slow. Eats memory. Crashes all the time. Does not save state
| > between sessions. Does not render HTML 4 properly. Does not support
| > CSS properly. Does not zoom. Does not display PNG properly.
| > Incorrectly ignores cache-control headers on images. The list goes
|
| What brower available on FreeBSD does do all these things?
| Mozilla 0.9.8 was a disaster. Opera 6 is such a disaster that I went
| back to 5.05. [linux-]Netscape6 was marked BROKEN for a long time.
| konquor... well requires a lot of KDE bits to be installed.
Mozilla in all the variants I have tried is incapable of even
reliably downloading a file -- sometimes it works and sometimes
it turns it into complete junk, usually 20 Mbytes bigger than
the original. Useless.
Many of the "secure" sites I need to use (banks, universities,
etc.) refuse to allow access from any release 6 browser.
Linux-netscape-4.7{6,9} handles everything I want, sometimes
with minor glitches, but well enough. And I can leave it
running for weeks at a time without problems. That's "good
enough" for me. The alternatives that I have tried either don't
build or don't work and that means they are worse.
Greg
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