Browsers

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

Mozilla is very promising, but I think out of the ones you mention Opera is the next best thing - it runs quite smoothly for still being alpha, although it has imagemap/frame problems right now



Edward Glowacki wrote:
> 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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