On 30-Mar-01 Thomas Duterme opined:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm fed up with netscape..the default browser that came with RH 7.0.
> If I open up too many windows, it freezes and I have to kill everything
> before loading it up again...its a resource hog and I want something
> slimmer. It exhibits a lot of other annoying behavior too..
>
> I would even risk, (no bring it on!!!) saying that the default browser
> that comes with Windows performs better than Redhat's default.
>
> Does anyone use anything else that has the same functionality (no I
> don't want to use Lynx...its not compatible with a lot of sites out
> there) but isn't as fat as netscape?
Galeon is getting to be workable. Missing a couple of things and still
some infrequent crashes (for me). Requires Mozilla be installed (another
memory hog) but, doesn't overload the system with bringing up gobs of
useless stuff to go with it. Needs an external mail client.
Konqueror works fine. But, doesn't (that I saw) allow an opening page
other than your home directory. Also, the bookmarks are a bit unweildy and
it brings up lots of k-processes that support it (like most of the other
KDE stuff does when run). Doesn't close down cleanly (again, like much of
the rest of KDE) because the programmers assumed if you wanted _anything_
from KDE to run, you wanted all of it. So, useless processes are left
behind after closing.
Opera had a free release if you can live with advertising. I haven't used
it much, but it seemed to be stable in my limited testing.
Older versions of Netscape can possibly be located if you can live
without the mostly unneeded "features" that tend to cause most of the
problems of which I'm aware. Java will still be broken, but what else is
new?
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