From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 3 23:54:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D471C37B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arnie.adacel.com.au (arnie.adacel.com.au [203.36.26.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63B7143E42 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:53:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael.wardle@adacel.com) Received: (qmail 10712 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2002 06:57:27 -0000 Received: from proton.adacel.com.au (root@203.8.85.90) by arnie.adacel.com.au with SMTP; 4 Sep 2002 06:57:27 -0000 Received: from hera.wodonga.adacel.com.au (hera.wodonga.adacel.com.au [192.168.75.251]) by proton.adacel.com.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA28643 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:51:55 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 17602 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2002 06:49:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO selene) (192.168.75.53) by hera.wodonga.adacel.com.au with SMTP; 4 Sep 2002 06:49:50 -0000 Message-ID: <038901c253df$da7f8d80$354ba8c0@wodonga.adacel.com.au> From: "Michael WARDLE" To: "David Schultz" Cc: "FreeBSD Current Mailing List" References: <20020904141916.B9524-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <3D759CCC.D96C11AA@mindspring.com> <20020904064122.GA5220@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Subject: Re: web browsers (was: Re: aout support broken in gcc3) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:54:02 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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