[ale] browser recc's?

Brian J. Dowd bdowd at dentfirst.com
Mon Aug 30 17:07:52 EDT 1999


Has anyone tried the W3C's Amaya browser and composer from www.w3c.org/amaya ?
-Brian

> I wiped Netscape off my pc a long time ago, it just isn't stable.
> Instead, I use KFM for all my web browsing. It doesn't have the bells and
> whistles of Netscape, but it doesn't crash, either.
>
> Opera may be available for Linux soon. It worked very well (fast, small
> footprint, etc) on Windows.
>
> Regards,
> Irv Mullins
>
> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > I've been having problems with 4.6 under kernel 2.2.11. When it dies, it
> > takes down the entire machine. Keyboard, mouse, AND NETWORKING. I can't
> > even ssh or telnet in to kill the process. Requires a cold reboot (ugh) to
> > recover. As this is going to be a web server, I can't keep rebooting it. I
> > uninstalled, reinstalled, redownloaded, repeated all of the above and
> > still Netscape dies. It's not dropping core so I have no diagnostics I can
> > do. Lynx works, but I miss the icon on slashdot :(
>
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Rob Butera wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi folks.
> > >
> > > Is it just me, or have recent versions of Netscape been hanging up
> > > a lot more than they used to.  It seems that both 4.5 and 4.61 lock
> > > up on a regular basis, even on pages without Java Applets (and even
> > > more on the pages that do have them).  I have been running on 2.2.5
> > > and 2.2.10 kernels, on a system that is (mostly) SUSE 6.1.
> > >
> > > Can anyone reccomend another browser (maybe a Mozilla derivative)
> > > that is more stable?  If it matters at all, I am running the 128-bit
> > > encryption version.
> .........
> > > Last time I looked at "other" browsers (2+ years ago), nothing really
> > > came close to NS and IE.   I suspect that things have changed, especially
> > > with the opening of the Mozilla source -- any reccomendations?
>
> > >






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