On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:04:05 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com said: > > > > Well, I installed it and it freaked out my WM. A window kept coming > > up very rapidly, which read "Crash Recovery". > > I had to restart X to get rid of it. I was dead in the water. > > Skipstone or Galeon? IIRC, they both have crash recovery. > > I had the problem of the infinite restart a few months back, on one of > my systems, don't recall what the problem was. May have been a stale > dot-directory -- both browsers are pretty picky about having old configs > lying around. Was this an upgrade?
No, I had never used it before (Skipstone), so I tried it after it was mentioned on this thread. > > Try deleting .skipstone or .galeon, as appropriate, and attempting to > start again. If that doesn't work, try: > > $ strace $BROWSER > > (for appropriate value) and see if you can't work out where things get > funky. I will try that. > > Note that while I *really* like the concepts, I find them less usable at > present than Netscape. Exactly, it is the same with Opera. I looks as though it will be superior to Netscape, but it still has some features (like plugins) missing. -- Andrew