on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 04:14:40PM +0000, Ekkehard Kraemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Daniel Borgmann wrote: > > > > > > My experience was that Mozilla M18 was not nearly as stable as > > > > Netscape 4.75 and I removed it from my system. > > > > > > i have found its certainly more of a pig > > > ... > > i heared of skipstone and really really want to try it. > > I just installed Skipstone, and it looks good (suits me better than > Galeon, at least). Apart from being leaner than Mozilla/Netscape (small > wonder, it aims to do much less), it has the one single feature which > made me pay for the Opera browser (on another well-loved OS whose name I > will not mention here :-) ). > > The feature I mean is this: you can switch Skipstone to "tabbed" mode, > and all browser windows are contained in one single "real" window (read: > MDI mode). But it still gets better: if you open a link in a new window > now, the new window is opened *behind* the current window. That is, you > can open a list of links with just a few clicks, and don't need to > constantly shuffle windows around. Nice feature for people who browse > "breath-first", like me. Granted, it's only one click less then with > other browsers, but it's still nice and definitively makes the desktop > less cluttered.
Karsten's iron law of web browsers: they all suck.
I'm playing with (objective statements follow):
- NS 4.57: still primary for graphics, though I curse it every time I
load it and twice on crashes.
- w3m: secondary browser
- lynx: for unformatting overly designed websites -- sometimes
straight text is just better
- galeon: it's better than Mozilla. Lighter, fewer cruft features,
but still heavy on my PII-180, unstable, and with a couple of
annoying features. Slimmed down, speeded up, and stabilized, it
could be a favorite.
- Skipstone: also nice, see galeon. There are a few feature
tradeoffs, and it's not as lightweight as I'd like it to be. A font
scaler would be good.
- Konqueror: if and when KDE is stable on my box (rarely), it's
actually pretty damned nice. I wish to dog it were less dependent
on KDE features, though. Hello, world, we've just gone through a
decade of showing what happens when you insist on complex
interdependencies between software. Learn your fucking lesson
already.
- Mozilla: take out the fucking cruft. 'Nuf said. The Mozilla team
may (finally) be getting the message, but I've got my doubts.
- Gzilla (aka armadillo): Not even nearly there yet.
- Gnome help browser: all the interdependency issues of Konqueror w/o
the charm.
- StarOffice: Nice browser, too bad about the ball and chain.
Private memo to Sun StarDivision: dis-integrate the fucking mess
already.
Question for the crowd. One of the few features of Netscape I
particularly care for is the ability to restrict font sizing range to a
small scope -- 80 - 120% rather than the 50-200% default. Anyone know a
way to restrict the range of font sizing used by <font size=#> tags and
<h[1234567]> tags?
In Netscape, it's the following X resource:
Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05
Default is 20. This sets the font scaling step to 5% rather than 20%.
Clues?
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