On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 17:02 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone > (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs > and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have > something else too, one of these reasons being that it would be > initiated with alternate identities, mail addresses etc.. In the > meantime, this would allow me to test something else, which is the > reason why I don't plan to install 'Netscape' which is about the same as > Firefox/Iceweasel, sometimes using same conf files, bookmarks and so on.
Gnome's browser epiphany comes to mind, it's also based on firefox IIRC. Also have a look at galeon if you need an alternate. > Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is very > expensive) ? I may miss the knowledge of something better that Opera... I don't think opera needs to be registered any more, haven't looked at it in a while though. There are debs for it at the opera website, it can be added to sources.list and installed with apt-get or aptitude & friends also. Not a bad browser too if you need another. > As for newsgroups, I also wish to experiment something new. Up to now, I > have rarely used "Firefox" for usenet news, as I preferred "pan". I've > heard of "pine" for newsgroups, but I heard that it was kind of hard to > configure ; this may be wrong. For e-mail, I used to use "staroffice > mail" in the old days when that did exist (So 5.1 and 5.2), and, ever > since then, I am using Thunderbird, that is, Icedove on Debian Lenny. > Alternately, I plan to use 'mutt', which is already up and running on my > systems ever since 2005 or so, of which I have so far only made I an > irregular use. Willing to use it again, I lately spent some time > reconfiguring exim4, but it now seems to operate all right. Pine is what I used many moons ago for mail & news. I suppose it might be a bit old school now but it does work wonderfully. Good if you want a console mail & news app. There is also tin for newsgroups, also maybe old school but works well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
