On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, J.J.Young wrote:

> I didn't find Opera's 30-day shareware evaluation long enough to
> convince me of its merits (it's a buggy browser that people have
> been prepared to pay for), but any new 16-bit version may be ad-
> supported as well as paid-for. 

  I downloaded the Linux version, and while it seems to be fairly
functional, I stopped using it after about a week even though it
was a 30 day trial version.  It just didn't do anything for me.

> Back to the original topic... Opera allows you to disable tables,
> and CSS (currently used to horribly bloat pages) 

  On those rare occasions I fire up NS 4.75, I generally disable
CSS too.

> Arachne is faster and more crash-proof on heavy graphics pages.
> Try Netscape3 if you like slow-motion aniGIFs, or a 1-hour browsing
> limit with a compressed hard drive.

  Huh?  I've never noticed "slow-motion," and I sometimes leave 
Netscape 3.04 running for several days at a time... could be the
difference between Linux Netscape and 'doze Netscape, I suppose.

 - Steve


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