[aclug-L] Re: any other browsers? Alternatives to Netscape?

["Michael A. Holmes" <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In linux most of the time I use the nte browser, but it is very primitive, 
by the bye...HOW DO I RESET THE MIME's on kde?  I have loaded adobe acrobat 
and it is still going to the application which cannot read pdf format. :-(

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From:   Greg House [SMTP:ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:   Thursday, March 23, 2000 10:09 PM
To:     discussion@xxxxxxxxx
Subject:        [aclug-L] Re: any other browsers? Alternatives to Netscape?

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I have netscape installed on my computer, and about every third time it 
crashes
> and locks up the xwin server, then when you finally get it to reboot, as 
the
> computer is downloading, I see cannot find library glibc_1_2 .  I had 5.0 
then
> 6.0 then 6.1 then back down to 6.0 Rad hat installs.  This last time it 
was
> prompted by netscape crashing and the fonts trouble.  /home is the only
> original part of the computer, the rest is fresh.

What? You want a browser that does something more then Lynx??? <g>

Yeah, Netscape on Linux is significantly less stable then other platforms I 
run
it on (WinNT, Solaris). I have a lot of problems with it crashing, but it
doesn't usually lock up my X server. I just love pressing the X to close 
one
window and having all my Netscape windows vaporize. Doesn't happen every 
time,
but frequently enough to annoy me.

You might try Mozilla. I haven't installed it myself, but I know It's 
getting
pretty close to being ready to release (one more build, I think they said), 
so
it should be getting pretty solid. Far as I can tell, even beta code should 
be
better then the current Netscape. It's got all the new extensions & stuff 
too.

There are other browsers available, but all seem to have some shortcoming. 
I
occasionally browse with the little kfm file manager thing that comes with 
KDE.
It works for a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has java or any of that.

Greg

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