On 9/8/2010 2:00 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In<[🔎] 4C872F30.4060507@allums.com>, Mark Allums wrote:Chrome allows me to avoid using Windows IE for certain web sites that I visit regularly. No other Linux browser is capable of that, in my experience.Odd. I haven't had a MS Windows system available in my household for 6 years. While Konq used to fail on many sites, I was always about to use Firefox or Iceweasel to fill in the gaps.
The situation has improved a lot in the last year or so as more and more sites come to the realization that Microsoft compatibility is not as desirable as standards compatibility (and to a very tiny degree, so has Microsoft itself). The availability of Flash on Linux was a godsend, but Iceweasel in Squeeze has had a lot of Flash ups and downs. I couldn't count on it working from day to day.
I have not tried midori; I have now put it on my TODO list. I second that links2 is pretty snazzy, but lack of Javascript is a deal-breaker. I use Gnome, and Konquerer is anathema. (KDE 4 is anathema to my sanity.)
I keep Windows around for games. In the family, also, my mother will not tolerate any changes to her setup, she uses Windows and is set in her ways, and I am called on to maintain that machine.