From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 17 0:37:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E36937B402 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 00:37:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13926 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Mar 2002 18:37:06 +1000 X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.25 04-Mar-2002 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Uptime: 67 days, 55 mins X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-GPG-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.gbch.net/keys.html Message-Id: Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:37:06 +1000 From: Greg Black To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web Browsers (Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT) References: <20020315205228.V32037-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <20020316034126.2DA6CBA05@i8k.babbleon.org> <200203160426.g2G4QKH02078@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020316114418.B95652@dragon.nuxi.com> In-reply-to: <20020316114418.B95652@dragon.nuxi.com> of Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:44:18 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" wrote: | On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 06:05:13AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: | > Garrett Wollman 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message