Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:38:36 +0000 From: Tony Alexander <kojak@i.am> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find/search a string in Netscape Message-ID: <3695538C.41C67EA6@i.am> References: <19990108195238.7133.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901081255530.21296-100000@guru.phone.net> <19990108220515.A65093@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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I still consider netscape 3.04 as a rather good browser, anything above that seems to be a pig. However from what I've heard mozilla are working on a much better interface for the new netscape browser named 'gecko' which seems very promising. -kojak Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Mike Meyer wrote: > > > I'll agree with that. In moving from orphaned hardware to FreeBSD, I > > lost a truly wonderfull browser. However, NetScape seems to be the > > best available GUI browser. I'm looking for other suggestions as to > > what to run on FreeBSD. > > > > I've tried Emacs-w3 (can't stand loosing emacs while large pages are > > loading) and Grail (doersn't display the on-line Python pages > > correctly). Anyone want to recommend some others? > > GUI or not GUI? I use Nutscrape when I'm feeling lazy or the site is > unviewable in Lynx, and it looks like I've just given away what my other > choice of browser is. I've also tried Chimera, and didn't like it that > much (can't remember why). Mosaic is a lot faster and more reliable than > Netscape, its only real downside is that it doesn't know about tables. > I looked at Arena as well, didn't like it. It looks like Nutscrape is > the best available, so that must really show how bad the rest are :-( At > least Microsoft haven't thrust their useless offering on the unix world > :-) > > -- > Ben Smithurst > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk > > send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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