From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 16 8:23:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bloodflowers.org (bloodflowers.org [212.47.68.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759F937B406 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@bloodflowers.org) Received: from [213.107.104.10] (helo=eclipse.bloodflowers.org ident=go_away) by mail.bloodflowers.org with smtp (Exim 3.22 #7) id 15MADd-0008ic-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:23:33 +0100 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:23:32 +0100 From: James Greenhalgh To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRGH Netscape stinks! Message-Id: <20010716162332.57676ab4.james@bloodflowers.org> In-Reply-To: <911D8F660DF6D411B61F00500462BA01C58B7B@exchange.twowaytv.co.uk> References: <911D8F660DF6D411B61F00500462BA01C58B7B@exchange.twowaytv.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.66 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:07:51 +0100 Alex Dyas wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:01:54AM -0400, Steve Tremblett wrote: > > > Is there ANY alternative to Netscape? I'm running Linux > > Netscape 4.77 > > > and I'm fed up with having it freeze or crash every hour. Is the > > > native Netscape any better? Is there another alternative? > > I've tried > > > Mozilla, but it crashed on the first site I went to, so I > > deinstalled > > > it. > > > > > > Any suggestions? (please no jokers suggesting lynx! :) > > > > > > -- > > > Steve Tremblett > > > > > > > I've been using Mozilla since 0.9 release and have very few problems. > > Currently they're at 0.9.2. I build from ports collection (rather > > than Mozilla's binary) > > The current Mozilla 0.9.2 has been steady as a rock for me. Earlier .8.x > versions were admitidly shakey but this one has renewed my faith in the > project. Renders like lightning too. Give it a go (got my port from the > dutch mirror which tends to be more up to date ftp.nl.freebsd.org ). > > alex.. My personal choice currently is Opera - which rules out looking at flash sites but I'm willing to live without that. Mozilla renders quickly, but I find the UI itself to be astonishingly slow (on a dual p2-400..) james -- find great crazy-mad out-of-head experience from japan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message