Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:14:22 -0400 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: sweetleaf <sweetleaf@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: good browser and java combo? Message-ID: <oprq19d8tt0cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <20030620040103.314546eb.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> References: <20030620040103.314546eb.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com>
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 04:01:03 -0500, sweetleaf <sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> wrote: > I was wondering what browsers and java seem to work the best. I need to > do online banking and would like to use java applets such as the > chat.yahoo.com. I have tried both mozilla and netscap with suns current > java-runtime and have found them to be extermetly unreliable. I wanted to > switch from windows to unix for about 2 yrs but could never find a > solution to java, and that remains the case after 3 yrs. Why is good java > support in browsers so difficult in unnix, seeing how java started its > life in the unix community. I cat believe windows and internet explorer > is actually better at java then unix. > > Any good lightweight browsers other than netscape, mozilla or opera that > work with java? > > Thanks in ./adv Sorry that I haven't used Java enough in FreeBSD to answer your question about browsers (my rural area limited to 28.8K dialup and satellite; latter's too expensive, so installing Java is the work of days). I can at least tell you, though, that the unreliability you see is simply due to MS's 'hijacking' of Java by use of a non-standard VM. Because of IE's market share, the sites you want to use all are tested and work with IE's non-standard Java, but that's not the case for Sun's or IBM's standard versions. Hmm, so maybe I've answered your question anyway - any non-IE browser will have difficulty on many "Java" Web sites because it's not using IE's virtual machine. Jud
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