Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "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.
Perhaps try firefox 4 (beta)? It is much faster, probably on par with chrome now, and it looks a bit cleaner designed. You can download Opera for free btw.
