From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 17:18:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-59.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E79D37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B85A666E25; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:18:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:18:26 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Araiza, Dennis" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: question about internet browsers Message-ID: <20010312171826.B99863@mollari.cthul.hu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from DAraiza@cskauto.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:10:23PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:10:23PM -0700, Araiza, Dennis wrote: > Hi,=20 > I have a question about web browsers and was hoping someone can help. I > currently run 4.2 stable and have been using Netscape to do all my web > browsing. I have noticed that the font on Netscape isn't that great and I > would prefer to run a different browser all together. My question is, is > there any emulator I can use to run Internet Explorer or is there any "li= ke" > application I can port in that looks and runs like it? Do you know of any > program that will allow me to run microsoft applications? I hope someone = can > get back to me on this and would appreciate any information that can help= me > out. Netscape looks much better with TrueType fonts - see a recent DaemonNews article about how to set this up. Recent versions of Mozilla look even better, as they do anti-aliasing as well now. In fact I use mozilla as my primary browser thesedays. You might have luck running IE under WINE or VMWARE, but it's almost certainly not worth the effort. Kris --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6rXVhWry0BWjoQKURAqToAKD5k2Q8sqWr1Jg2wdSwa/+AtvP2fwCcC4SK 5YoXAWAu51u0sKpMZy5bYco= =c3RH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message