RE:" potato web browsers" + Opera, Mozilla/Netscrape
On 8 Feb 2002 1:13AM, nate [mailto:debian-user@aphroland.org] wrote:
>> so, what browsers are available as potato-friendly *.deb for X?
>
> Opera 5 and Opera 6 are potato friendly. in my experience
> opera 6 is woody-hostile though. opera 5 works good in woody.
Hmm, I didn't know Opera was available as a .deb package, I'll have to
try it. Could you elaborate on what you mean by v6 being "hostile"?
What sort of behavior have you observed? And were you able to get the
Sun JRE working with it?
> mozilla seems slow, konq i havent had much experience with,
It's almost unusable here, but I attributed that to the machine -- on a
Pentium Classic 166MHz, _everything's_ slow, even with 96MB. ;) Once I
get these flaky IBM 75GXPs out of the Win2K machine I'll have a
dual-boot Athlon-C to play with... but it sounds like I should just
stick with Netscrape 4.7 if, as you say, Mozilla is bogged down on a
733MHz. I also haven't heard good things about the last couple releases
(0.9.5 and .6 I think).
> opera with the banner is annoying, so unless you can
> live with it or buy it(i did), it may not be worth using.
You know, I bought into Opera and paid for a license back when it was
still version 4. They're up to 6 now, and frankly I can't say I'm happy
with major version numbers being assigned to what I see as relatively
minor revisions. Besides that, though, I was not amused to find that
the Win32 license doesn't work for Linux. That's straight from their
customer service, too, not just an install failure on my part. Booooo!
Jeff Bonner
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