* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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. Konqueror on my woody box is incapable of displaying GIF89a's, Netscape 6.x has problems displaying some CSS + tables pages (as in "some parts of the page are simply not there"). Anything derived from mozilla is a horrible memory hog (when used with another memory hog -- Forte -- they can easily bring your box down to its knees), and Netscape 4.x leaves behind runaway processes that have to be tracked down and killed every week or so -- otherwise the box becomes unusable... Is there IE for Linux? Dima -- The wombat is a mixture of chalk and clay used for respiration. -- MegaHal
