Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
On 10 Mar 2009, at 04:58, Howard Eisenberger wrote:
On 2009-03-10, gavin duley wrote:
At the moment, I am using Epiphany. This is part of the GNOME
project.
It's not as sophisticated as iceweasel, but it does pretty much
everything I need from a browser and works well.
http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(browser)
Thanks for responding. I just tried Epiphany (the browser, not the
game) briefly and it also crashed on a problem page (ebay.ca), but
I will investigate further.
That's... odd. I've used Epiphany on my Ultra 5 for quite a while, but
apparently I must not have used it for eBay. Epiphany seems to
reliably crash every time I click on the link to log in... It's the
first major problem I've had with Epiphany so far, though.
I tried two other web browsers -- one called netsurf seems to work,
but not very well (it's slow and does not have JavaScript support).
Another, chimera2, could not handle the eBay login page.
So far though, apart from for eBay, Epiphany seems to be the best
option for a web browser on the Ultra 5.
Out of interest, have you had any problems with X11 on your Ultra
5? I
find that unless I use the 2.6.22 kernel, X11 simply doesn't work.
I'm
running testing (which is probably almost identical to stable about
now...) and have had no luck with the 2.6.24 or 2.6.26 kernels.
http://lists.humbug.org.au/archives/general/2008-August/027088.html
As a matter of fact, I am also using 2.6.22 with testing on
this Ultra 5. With 2.6.25 X11 will not run.
Okay, thanks. I was wondering if this problem had been fixed by now...
gavin,
--
As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" -- probably because it's
so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
-- Woody Allen
Gavin Duley
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