From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 11:53: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822A437B408 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:52:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAE12E45F for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:52:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7DIqrA09076; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:52:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) X-Authentication-Warning: onceler.kciLink.com: khera set sender to khera@kcilink.com using -f To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netcape Browser [RANT] References: <007201c122fd$062d8000$0e00000a@tomcat> From: Vivek Khera Date: 13 Aug 2001 14:52:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <007201c122fd$062d8000$0e00000a@tomcat> Message-ID: Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 >>>>> "ACH" == Andrew C Hornback writes: >> >Does "Netscape" run poperly on FreeBSD v4.3? >> >> No, it doesn't. It's a pile of junk. ACH> Funny... it works fine on my FreeBSD systems. Funny thing is that Netscape runs pretty well (only rare crash) from my own account. If I log in using my wife's account on my workstation, netscape crashes immediately. Not a clue why -- even cleaned out her entire .netscape directory. Personally, I run mostly in Opera these days since it is wicked fast. However, I have issues with it ignoring "no-cache" on some documents, necessitating a reload. And lack of Java is sometimes painful, but then having Java is painful, too. ;-) Konquerer is pretty good, but even on a Pentium III 450, it is dog slow, and the JavaScript implementation sucks big time. This is really bad, since JavaScript is more or less mandatory for many sites these days. If it were as fast as Opera and javascript didn't fail so often, I would use it exclusively. Right now, I've got Netscape, Opera, and Konquerer all running on my desktop at the same time, visiting different pages for different purposes. Netscape is slowly going away from my desktop, though. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message