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Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)



on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:17:10AM -0400, geordie (geordie@tao.ca) wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> > I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely
> > in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams.  I'm
> > looking for feedback, particularly on anything I might have missed.
> >
> >     http://home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html
> >
> > I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon.
> >
> > Cheers.
> 
> from the konqueror review:
> 
> 	Con:
> 
> 	KDE dependencies. Difficulties and/or issues running
> 	independently of KDE.  These are subsiding with time -- a recent
> 	Debian upgrade, and cleaning out of some conflicting KDE package
> 	source servers has given me a working KDE installation. I still
> 	find the total desktop environment to be annoying and bloated on
> 	my aging (but recently invigorated) PPro-180/256MB home system.
> 	Running Konqueror under WindowMaker, my preferred desktop,
> 	results in some annoying font and display choices which aren't
> 	readily addressable through WindowMaker.
> 
> 
> it seems to run fine under fvwm.  the major beef i have with it is
> regular crashes with https.

Font settings dialogs are not as clean as the Galeon/Gtk equivalents.  I
can't set menu/dialog fonts without going through the KDE configuration
tool.

I believe the same beef applies to Galeon, but I've recently set my
GNOME prefs and they've stuck.

-- 
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
 What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?       There is no K5 cabal
  http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/         http://www.kuro5hin.org

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