From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 8 5:47:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DDF537B416 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 05:47:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16jKiv-000G0l-00 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 08 Mar 2002 13:47:53 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id C7C3413040 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:47:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id A2E9F22597; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:47:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:47:48 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Browser wars (was Re: Taming Netscape Navigator?) Message-ID: <20020308134748.GB49477@raggedclown.net> References: <3C7FB956.18428.510B414@localhost> <20020301201318.C3880@over-yonder.net> <200203051407.g25E7WF10805@dungeon.home> <20020305105330.H3880@over-yonder.net> <200203061331.g26DVFe15485@dungeon.home> <20020306155828.GA11735@hades.hell.gr> <200203081302.g28D2XC29103@dungeon.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203081302.g28D2XC29103@dungeon.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:02:33PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > On Wednesday, 6th March 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > >On 2002-03-06 23:31, Stephen McKay wrote: > > > >> I haven't yet seen a current generation window manager I can stomach, > >> and vtwm is good for a couple dozen windows, not hundreds. Actually, > >> even so-called modern window managers are poor at handling 100 windows. > > > >Actually, so-called modern humans are also poor at handling 100 windows! > >HOLLY GHOST! What do you need 100 windows for? > > Well, it sort of creeps up on you. Every day I seem to open and half read > a couple more web pages than I close. After a month or so, that starts > to add up, and I often hit 100 open windows in Opera. I never got that > far with Netscape because it got too cluttered much faster, and let's > face it, Netscape never stayed up long enough to open that many windows. > Opera also has that really handy "Resume from when you left off" feature > for those occasions when it does crash. That makes preserving your 100 > half-read pages a breeze! :-) > Oh bah to that, Netscape has the superior feature of resuming where you started off from, and you get there several times a day as a bonus :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message