Browsers

[Edward Glowacki]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Sean wrote:
> If there another browser available besides netscape that is robust and
> supports java, that I can compile?

Put down your crack pipe, put your hands behind your head, and step
back slowly.  ;)  Sorry Charlie, for Linux right now Netscape is
all there is.  Mozilla is still beta, Opera is still beta, W3M is
text mode and doesn't do java but it's very unlikely to crash =).
There's Galeon (still alpha) that is supposedly like Mozilla without
the news and mail readers, just a lightweight browser, dunno if it
does java.  There's the KDE based Konqueror (?) IIRC, dunno how
that one is coming along or if it supports java.  There's a web
browser mode for Emacs ( ;) Ben), though IIRC its kinda slow and
I doubt it suports things like Java.  Other browsers that might
run, but probably also don't do Java or necessarily anything else
for that matter include Chimera, Grail, Lynx (had some big security
holes, got pulled from some distros I think, and it's text mode).
Basically if you want stable, use W3M.  If you want Java, use
Netscape.  The best of both worlds does not exist yet for Linux,
or you would have heard of it by now.

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