On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Philip Webb wrote: > 011028 Thomas Dickey wrote: > > I've been using Opera in place of Netscape for some sites > > (though it doesn't do JavaScript afaik, so it can't replace Netscape), > > and have seen the usual ones which offer to upgrade my browser. > > i've given up on Opera, which repeatedly gets lost downloading complex dox. > Netscape 4.7 is adequate & useful for image-heavy sites, > but even with my new hi-speed line Lynx remains my browser of choice. > a text browser gives you large clear consistent type > & you don't have all the blinking garbage to distract your attention; > you can also jump around the document with great agility > & find image URLs hidden in JS using cached prettysource (thanx again VH).
but on linux, netscape has a tendency to blow up (use 99% of the cpu without recovery, and the couple of snapshots of mozilla which I have tried don't work much better - so opera it is...). I ignore the advertising, of course (it's no worse than going to netscape's homepage, anyway ;-) -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
