From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 11 13:21:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D921B37B40A for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 13:21:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF27AD3; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:21:24 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dev-null@no-id.com Subject: Re: Web Browsers (is there hope?) Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:21:24 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010811093210.21625.qmail@propane.zoomph.net> In-Reply-To: <20010811093210.21625.qmail@propane.zoomph.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01081112212401.11534@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 11 August 2001 01:32 am, dev-null@no-id.com wrote: > Hello > > Is it just me or do the web browsers under FreeBSD > (and Unix in general) just SUCK? > > Why can't I surf the Net without a damn browser > crash every 5-20 minutes? > > Netscape is just a fucking lost cause. Despite > the three different generations I've tried > (4.0, 4.7, 6 -- both FreeBSD and Linux versions > where applicable), the developers have not > learned how to stop the frigging thing from > freezing completely and pulling down window > managers and X with it. Try chatting on > Yahoo! Chat with it; the applet causes Netscape > to freeze every 5-10 minutes. > > Ok, so I looked for alternatives. Ah! Opera! > That seemed like a plan. Lo and behold! A > fucking segfault within 15 minutes for no > apparent reason whatsoever. And again. > And again. And again. At least it's kind > enough to offer to resume at the page > where it crashed. Unacceptable. > > This is where I'm at now. Confused. Looking > for an answer. I need a browser that is > actually STABLE and supports the following > features minimally: > > o HTML (duh) > o Images (to preempt the lynx smartass) > o JavaScript > o Java (ESSENTIAL) > o CSS > o SSL/TLS > > I'd also like it to have plugin extensibility > for stuff like flash, but that's not essential. > > I can use Internet Explorer or the win32 version > of Netscape for hours on end without so much a > blink, but that is an unacceptable solution. > > Suggestions? > Try IRC, java chat sucks in all platforms. Beech ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message