Re: netsacape running wild

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

CC-ed to mozilla package maintainer, FYI.

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:52:28PM -0500, David Greene wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> 
> > yes and i am very upset of this crap. netscape is big, slow and
> > crashes too often. still i don't see iother every-day-runnable
> > alternatives. sob...
>
> I find the mozilla, slowness and all, serves MUCH better as a
> full-time browser than Netscape.

yep, mozilla's getting pretty good.

the only really annoying thing i've noticed about it is that if you view
http://slashdot.org/ there is a little gif on the page (greendot.gif)
which mozilla repeatedly reloads until you press ESC or click on Stop.

i don't know why it does this....the only "unusual" thing about it is
that it is being used as a horizontal rule at the bottom of the page.
dunno why they can't just use <HR> like anyone else.

<TD colspan=4 align=center><IMG src="http://images.slashdot.org/greendot.gif"; alt="" width="80%" height=1 hspace=10 vspace=30></TD>

that greendot HR flickers at the bottom of the page until you i press
ESC.

anyway, it's annoying. it also filled up my /var partition overnight
when i left mozilla on slashdot and it fetched greendot.gif
several million times from my proxy (each fetch logged to
/var/log/squid/access.log).

i'm talking about M18-1 and M18-2 in woody. dunno about -3 yet, it's
probably the same since it's the same code. hopefully it will be fixed
in the next milestone release and i can use mozilla instead of netscape
for everything.


apart from that, mozilla's great. much better, faster, more stable than
netscape. still crashes occasionaly, but that's acceptable for a beta
program.



BTW, i have java turned off - that makes netscape far more stable. i
haven't yet seen a java applet that was worth the download time....and
certainly none that are worth making my browser much more unstable than
it normally is.

i'm tempted to turn off javascript too (it annoys me when web pages
hijack the status bar...and it annoys me even more when web pages use
stupid javascript eye-candy crap) but too many sites that use it for
reasonable things like form validation depend upon it.


craig

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craig sanders