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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
> 
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