From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 16:41:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18678 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:41:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from monsoon.dial.pipex.net (monsoon.dial.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA18670 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:41:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kojak@i.am) Received: (qmail 4854 invoked from network); 9 Jan 1999 00:40:41 -0000 Received: from userm337.uk.uudial.com (HELO kojak) (193.149.78.133) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 1999 00:40:41 -0000 Message-ID: <3695538C.41C67EA6@i.am> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:38:36 +0000 From: Tony Alexander X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst CC: Mike Meyer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find/search a string in Netscape References: <19990108195238.7133.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <19990108220515.A65093@scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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