Re: Status of Galeon in testing?
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:34:30 +1100
Tim Connors <tconnors+linuxdebianuser1074850305@astro.swin.edu.au>
wrote:
> Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> said on Thu, 22 Jan 2004
> 15:23:25 +0000:
> > On (22/01/04 09:22), stan wrote:
> > >
> > > For several weeks now, I've had to freeze all my "testing"
> > > systems, as an apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove galeon, which
> > > is a critical requirement for these systems.
> > >
> > > Can anyone enlighteen me as to what's going on with this package?
> > Sorry - I can't give you any info on Galeon other than I had a
> > problem upgrading to sid and Galeon became so broken I had to
> > reinstall. I've now switched to Mozilla-Firebird which works a
> > treat ;)
>
> Is there a browser that is acceptable for slow computers? My AMD K6II
> 500MHz box takes forever to render a page, or even to switch tabs.
>
> Given the galeon is using mozilla's rendering engine, and that the
> alternatives I can think of are even worse (Konqueror is KDE, so
> couldn't possibly have ever been designed to be at all resembling
> quick).
>
> Nutscap 4.7 was acceptable (hell, I would even call it fast), but
> naturally, is a little broken.
>
> Any experiences in this department, anyone?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/release-notes.html
It's fast and light and very configurable. Check out the extension
settings to add some features several others still don't have.
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