on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 12:55:15AM -0500, Alec (alec1976nyc@yahoo.com) wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2001 07:56 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk > (dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu) wrote: > > > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > > > > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec (alec1976nyc@yahoo.com) > wrote: > > > > > Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to > > > > > prefer it to Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? > > > > > > > > I'd far and away recommend Galeon. Mozilla and Konqueror round out the > > > > top of the full-featured browser offerings for GNU/Linux. All three > > > > are feature-rich, standards compliant, stable, and extremely useable. > > > > Galeon's got polish and an attention to user-friendly detail which > > > > simply inspires awe and gratitude. > > > > > > > > Netscape 4.x is a buggy, standards-busting, festering load of crap. It > > > > was one of the worst things to happen to GNU/Linux -- the browsing > > > > experience is one of the more important aspects of personal computing, > > > > and we lagged the legacy MS Windows / Mac world for years. I'd give > > > > odds to say we're starting to lead again. > > > > > > <SIGH/> All browsers suck. > > > > Karsten's Iron Rule of Browsers: they all suck. > > > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html > > > > ...but I take it back. Galeon Kicks Ass®. > > > > > Anything derived from mozilla is a horrible memory hog > > > > 46MB currently, with about a dozen tabs open. Considering a session can > > go over 100 tabs (really!), and rarely tops 120 MB, it's reasonably OK. > > Memory's cheap. Galeon _doesn't_ appear to leak the way Netscape 4.x > > did. > > Is it apt-gettable from woody? no? I'm not interested :) Not last I checked (about a month ago), though you should be able to get the Sid packages without too much hassle. I'd updated a system via this route a ways back. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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