Re: Browsers

[Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:21:37AM -0400, Clinton Ebadi wrote:
> On 26 Jun 2001, at 11:44, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 
> > I haven't tried either Chimera2 or Gzilla.  Anyone have experience
> > using these on really light systems?
> 
> I used chimera2 once or twice. Don't use it. It is ancient (I mean 
> ancient). It doesn't even support all of html 3! And it uses the 
> Athena toolkit..so it is a bit..*ahem* ugly (and the scrollbar makes 
> no sense if you have never used Athena based programs before). So, I 
> don't think it is very child friendly (or any person friendly for 
> that matter).

Hm.  I can't even find gzilla in the archives.  All I find is "dillo"
with this description:

Description: GTK-based web browser
 dillo is based on gzilla and is a free browser which uses the GTK. It
 should be considered "early alpha" software.

Bleh.  "early alpha".  i don't like the sounds of that.

Ben
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