From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 20 1:28: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1802937B404; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 01:28:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [208.210.80.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9FD43F85; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 01:28:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from blues.jpj.net (localhost.jpj.net [127.0.0.1]) by blues.jpj.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2K9Rxq7015984; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 04:27:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id h2K9RxBB015976; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 04:27:59 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: blues.jpj.net: trevor owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 04:27:58 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson To: "Scott R." , Doug Barton , "Scott A. Moberly" Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape 7.02? In-Reply-To: <46898.65.221.169.187.1048100277.squirrel@mail.karamazov.org> Message-ID: <20030320040239.Q15655@blues.jpj.net> References: <3E78B6F0.5040505@sfmidimafia.com> <46898.65.221.169.187.1048100277.squirrel@mail.karamazov.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Scott R. wrote: > If Netscape 7 is not going to be actively > maintained, does anyone have recommendations for a browser that I can > use instead that *will* do everything (including handling Flash, java > and audio and video plugins)? These all share common code with Netscape Communicator: - ports/www/linux-mozilla - ports/www/linux-phoenix - ports/www/linux-beonex (though this should be marked FORBIDDEN just now) Phoenix is faster and has fewer features than Netscape; Beonex has improvements to privacy and security. Scott A. Moberly wrote: > This combination usually handles everything: > > /usr/ports/www/flashpluginwrapper > /usr/ports/java/jdk13 or /usr/ports/java/jdk14 > /usr/ports/www/mozilla > /usr/ports/www/plugger I don't use these myself, but it looks reasonable. > The maintainer is loathe to update it because the existing port took a > lot of hacking to get into shape for our ports collection, and > subsequent releases didn't have all the parts in one place, making it a > lot more difficult to update. (At least that's my understanding.) I had an update of the English-language port from 7.0 to 7.01 ready, but when I tested it I found that it still had the "forward referrer" bug. I would have kept it FORBIDDEN because of that. I also noticed that AIM had become mandatory and that Java was no longer available from the same place, but the main reason I didn't update it was that the "forward referrer" bug remained. Lately I've been distracted by other things so I haven't looked at Netscape 7.02 yet. The release notes are utterly vague: . If there's a distinct reason why you can use 7.02 but not 7.0, please let me know and I will give it greater priority. -- Trevor Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message