Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:54:02 +1000 From: "Michael WARDLE" <michael.wardle@adacel.com> To: "David Schultz" <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: "FreeBSD Current Mailing List" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: web browsers (was: Re: aout support broken in gcc3) Message-ID: <038901c253df$da7f8d80$354ba8c0@wodonga.adacel.com.au> References: <20020904141916.B9524-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <3D759CCC.D96C11AA@mindspring.com> <20020904064122.GA5220@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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> > Mozilla, Galeon, and other browsers claim to be better, but > > often fail to provide features that have been in Netscape > > for forever. > > You mean features like being stable, at least sometimes? > Efficiency? IMO, Mozilla has features up the kazoo, but the > developers seem unwilling to pursue unfashionable goals such as > making a browser that just works. And in terms of security, a > buggy browser worries me a lot more than Linux emulation. The Gecko engine developed by the Mozilla Project, however seems to be very good. I find Galeon quite nice, as it uses Mozilla's quite capable HTML rendering engine, has its own well designed GTK-based GUI, and has little of Mozilla's bloat. Netscape Navigator <= 4.? has quite bad HTML rendering, and is disliked greatly by most web developers I know (not to condone it, but it's little wonder that many web sites are now "designed for Internet Explorer"). I would suggest to anybody still using Netscape 4 on a Unix platform that they try a replacement browser, whether that be Mozilla, Galeon, or something else (perhaps Opera or Konqueror). If you're looking for a replacement Internet mail client, you might like to try Mutt, Balsa, Sylpheed, or Evolution. -- MICHAEL WARDLE SGI Desktop and Sysadmin Software Adacel Technologies Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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