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

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many alternatives exist:

mozilla
gzille
chimera
mosaic
lynx
links
w3m
amaya
kde's thing, kfm or konquerer or whatnot
etc.

"Michael A. Holmes" <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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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