"Stephan Soller" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 07.10.2010 23:59, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Stephan Soller"<[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> On 07.10.2010 14:56, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>>> "Stephan Soller"<[email protected]> wrote in message >>>> news:[email protected]... >>>>> >>>>> [1]: http://arkanis.de/ >>>>> >>>> >>>> Not to complain, just FYI, this is what that page looks like for me: >>>> >>>> http://www.semitwist.com/download/arkanis1.png >>>> http://www.semitwist.com/download/arkanis2.png >>>> http://www.semitwist.com/download/arkanis3.png >>>> >>>> Interestingly, if I turn JS on, than it'll look a lot better *until* it >>>> finishes loading, at which point it goes back to looking just like >>>> those >>>> screenshots. >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for the screenshots. May I ask which version of Firefox (if I see >>> that correctly) your're using >> >> v2.0.0.20 >> >> Which actually kinda surprises me because I could have sworn I was on a >> much >> later version of the 2.x line. I *know* there was a period where it kept >> updating itself seemingly all the time (which got quite irritating when I >> just wanted to go to a particular URL). But I guess that must have been >> the >> only 2.x version I was able to find after giving up on FF3. And IIRC, the >> built-in update won't let me update to anything less than FF3. >> >> And yea, I know FF2 is really old, but I tried 3.0 and 3.5 and the JS was >> only marginally faster, it doesn't seem to fix any of the rendering bugs >> I've come across in FF2 (I have 3.5 on my Linux box, just for site >> testing), >> and every other change they made I hated and downloaded extentions to >> undo...until I realized there was no extention to un-unify the unified >> forward/back buttons (which I had thought was a good idea when IE7 came >> out -- until I actually used IE7), and realized the only winestripe-like >> things for FF3 weren't nearly as good as the real winestripe. So I >> figured >> "Why bog it down with even *more* addons just to turn it into a >> half-baked >> FF2, when I can just use the real FF2?" YouTube bitches to me about it, >> but >> well, fuck YouTube; never liked having over-compressed videos >> pre-embedded >> into a web-based player anyway. >> > > Maybe you should consider looking into some other browsers? Opera, Chrome > and other Gecko based browsers might give you a better experience that the > newer Firefox versions. This is the reason why there are different > browsers after all. >
- Safari is ruled out because it's a blurry mess (all for the sake of making it look more like the printed version? WTF?) and forces useless background processes, has zero respect for my system's look-and-feel, and has no "Adblock Plus", "NoScript", or "BetterPrivacy" (Three FF add-ons that provide functionality that, for me, are absolutely 100% essential). - IE7+ is out because it has no "Adblock Plus", "NoScript", or "BetterPrivacy", and I don't like the unified forward/back buttons. - Iron is out because I *hate* absolutely everything about it's UI, and it doesn't have "NoScript" (I've heard it has "AdBlock Plus", but I didn't see it when I first looked so I don't know). Also, configurability seems to be practically non-existent compared to FF. - Chrome is out because of all the reasons for which Iron was created in the first place. I won't even allow Chrome (or Safari) on my computer at all. - Opera is ruled out because it costs money and every time I tried the demos it seemed to combine the worst aspects of all the other browsers, plus had by far the most rendering problems. - And everything else like IE6-, Netscape, WebTV, Lynx, etc are all ruled out for obvious reasons.
