on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self ([email protected]) spake thusly: > > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to prefer > > > it to Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? > > > > I'd far and away recommend Galeon. Mozilla and Konqueror round out the > > top of the full-featured browser offerings for GNU/Linux. All three are > > feature-rich, standards compliant, stable, and extremely useable. > > Galeon's got polish and an attention to user-friendly detail which > > simply inspires awe and gratitude. > > > > Netscape 4.x is a buggy, standards-busting, festering load of crap. It > > was one of the worst things to happen to GNU/Linux -- the browsing > > experience is one of the more important aspects of personal computing, > > and we lagged the legacy MS Windows / Mac world for years. I'd give > > odds to say we're starting to lead again. > > <SIGH/> All browsers suck.
Karsten's Iron Rule of Browsers: they all suck.
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html
...but I take it back. Galeon Kicks Ass®.
> Anything derived from mozilla is a horrible memory hog
46MB currently, with about a dozen tabs open. Considering a session can
go over 100 tabs (really!), and rarely tops 120 MB, it's reasonably OK.
Memory's cheap. Galeon _doesn't_ appear to leak the way Netscape 4.x
did.
Peace.
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