Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-23 Thread christophe barbé
Last time I've checked, this deb-url contained galeon and ximian packages of mozilla. They use a strange numbering scheme for the libnspr4 package and are never uptodate. Take the deb of galeon and install it with dpkg -i galeon.deb. NB: galeon won't work with mozilla0.9 from kitame. You need to

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-22 Thread Kai Weber
+ Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com: Where did you get your .deb's from? The links on the website seem to be dead! Craig Mozilla I'm getting through the standard Debian packages. Galeon I downloaded from ftp.sourceforge.net:

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-16 Thread will trillich
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:00:49PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Hall Stevenson writes: ...you've pretty indicated that *nothing* will satisfy you, even a browser you've never tried. ??? What's your problem? oh goody, a flame war! i can't wait to see what productive traffic THIS generates.

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:15:48PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self writes: Version? Of both Galeon and Mozilla. 0.8.3 and M18-3. There's no point in persuing this further, though. Your option. Be aware that the issues you have are addressed in more recent

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:20:50AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. After reading your review and seeing the screeshot (are those tabs what I think they

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-16 Thread John Galt
GCC? gzip? gopher? :) On Tue, 15 May 2001, will trillich wrote: snip i've never tried galeon, but i have an opinion: who'd wanna browse with software having G as a first initial? eesh! :) -- a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Who is John Galt?/a Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:14:54AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: Mozilla I'm getting through the standard Debian packages. It hasn't changed version since stable. Is that okay? No need for anything newer? you need at least 0.8, 0.9 is much better though.

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: http://home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html I get a 404. I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. I wish I was. It still crashes, and it still gives me no control of images. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm looking for feedback, particularly on anything I might have missed.

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread freedman
On Mon, May 14, 2001, ktb wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm looking for feedback, particularly on anything I might

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:02:14PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self writes: http://home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html I get a 404. I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. I wish I was. It still crashes, and it still gives me no control

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread William Leese
being a bit of a Mozilla advocate i have two small comments; 1) lastest development release is 0.9, nightlies are 0.9.1 2) the screenshot is quite old, mozilla is now on its fourth skin, the one in the screenshot was its second i'm not certain if you ve tested the 0.9 release, if not i

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Viktor Lakics
Thanks Karsten for the interview, very useful, just some remarks: 1. Opera Opera is in stable 5.0 now (as of yesterday, at least on the ftp server, you might want to give it a try, debs available, it is a very easy call to test) 2. Netscape It is in 4.77 now, and though not much changed, I

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread William Leese
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 07:45, William Leese wrote: being a bit of a Mozilla advocate i have two small comments; 1) lastest development release is 0.9, nightlies are 0.9.1 oh, one warning: galeon seems to crash very often with 0.9, much more often than mozilla does. perhaps instead of

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001, ktb wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm looking for feedback,

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread ha shao
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. I am not. Try use it with 64MB of RAM -- Best regard hashao

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Craig Holyoak
Where did you get your .deb's from? The links on the website seem to be dead! Craig On 14 May 2001 21:36:07 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:02:14PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self writes:

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:51:47AM +0100, Viktor Lakics ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks Karsten for the interview, very useful, just some remarks: 1. Opera Opera is in stable 5.0 now (as of yesterday, at least on the ftp server, you might want to give it a try, debs available, it is a

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:20:19PM +0800, ha shao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. I am not. Try use it with 64MB of RAM I'll give that a shot. Hint: LILO boot parameters

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:07:42PM +1000, Craig Holyoak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 14 May 2001 21:36:07 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:02:14PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self writes:

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread ha shao
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:41:40PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:20:19PM +0800, ha shao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am not. Try use it with 64MB of RAM I'll give that a shot. Hint: LILO boot parameters are your friend. I once booted a RH box on 16 MB,

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Joris Lambrecht
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html - Original Message - From: Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 8:45 AM Subject: Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread will trillich
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:40:24PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:51:47AM +0100, Viktor Lakics ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 3. Sorry, I do not have opinion about Galeon I never tried it. What? Wait a minute. You're a GNU/Linux user, and you *don't* have an

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:20:08PM +0800, ha shao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:41:40PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:20:19PM +0800, ha shao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am not. Try use it with 64MB of RAM I'll give that a shot.

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:20:19PM +0800, ha shao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. I am not. Try use it with 64MB of RAM Doing same. Galeon's running with about 17 tabs

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread geordie
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm looking for feedback, particularly on anything I might have missed.

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: It still crashes, and it [Galeon] still gives me no control of images. Karsten M. Self writes: What image controls do you want? Netscape lets me turn off images in preferences and then click on individual image icons to download them. It also has an images command to download all the

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread ha shao
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:49:17AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Isn't w3m a Japanese-oriented invention? Is w3mmee related to w3m? Yes. w3mmee base on w3m with some code to make i18n correct. :) oh, I saw people use ulimit to set up a controlled environment. -- Best regard hashao

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Karsten M. Self wrote: Mozilla I'm getting through the standard Debian packages. It hasn't changed version since stable. Is that okay? No need for anything newer? http://galeon.sourceforge.net/download.html says we need the mozilla devel package from

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. After reading your review and seeing the screeshot (are those tabs what I think they are???) I decided I had to try it. I changed my mind when I saw that it depends on GNOME

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Forrest English
have you tried skipstone? it's basicaly like galeon, without all the garbage. http://muhri.net/skipstone -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Forrest English
if galeon seems a bit slow... i've had a great time using skipstone on my laptop. p2 266, 64 megs of ram. works wonderfuly, never has it used more than 25 megs of ram (with 4 websites open in different tabs). -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:01:10AM -0700, Forrest English wrote: have you tried skipstone? it's basicaly like galeon, without all the garbage. http://muhri.net/skipstone Thanks, I'll look in to it. (looks at screenshots) It does look nice. (looks at dependencies) It looks even better.

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread John Hasler
noah writes: I changed my mind when I saw that it depends on GNOME crap. Can't I install a browser without installing a fscking desktop environment? Yes. Galeon, for example. Gnome libraries != Gnome desktop environment. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:22:29AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: noah writes: I changed my mind when I saw that it depends on GNOME crap. Can't I install a browser without installing a fscking desktop environment? Yes. Galeon, for example. Gnome libraries != Gnome desktop environment. Not

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 May 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:22:29AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: noah writes: I changed my mind when I saw that it depends on GNOME crap. Can't I install a browser without installing a fscking desktop environment? Yes. Galeon, for example.

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread DvB
William Leese wrote: i'm not certain if you ve tested the 0.9 release, if not i strongly suggest doing so (performance has *greatly* improved, though there still needs work to be done on the startup times and ofcourse memory usage) and perhaps also checking a nightly build so you can attempt

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread John Hasler
noah writes: I'm not about to install libglade (wich is used to build the interface), libxml and every other standard gnome library (quote from the galeon INSTALL file) just to get a browser. That's a perfectly good reason not to install Galeon, but it still isn't true that it requires you to

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
noah writes: I'm not about to install libglade (wich is used to build the interface), libxml and every other standard gnome library (quote from the galeon INSTALL file) just to get a browser. That's a perfectly good reason not to install Galeon, but it still isn't true that it requires

Skipstone [was Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)]

2001-05-15 Thread Jim McCloskey
I'd like to endorse the endorsements of Skipstone. For me, it's been fast, light and dependable (as browsers go). There's a lot that it doesn't claim or try to do, but for simple browsing, it's the best solution I've found (I've tried Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera). And when it crashes, it

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Joey Hess
Karsten M. Self wrote: Isn't w3m a Japanese-oriented invention? It was written by someone from that country, but it is oriented much more to people who want a small, fast, correct, and excellent text mode browser. -- see shy jo

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread b3
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:07:42PM +1000, Craig Holyoak wrote: Where did you get your .deb's from? The links on the website seem to be dead! Just picked up the Galeon/Mozilla/various libs/kitchen sink package from a combination of: deb http://www.markybob.com/mozilla/deb/ ./ and debian

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Forrest English wrote: have you tried skipstone? it's basicaly like galeon, without all the garbage. Debian package search results Release Quality Package (size) testing100%skipstone 0.7-1 (995.5k) unstable100%skipstone 0.7-2 (167.7k) Strange that 0.7-2

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Craig Holyoak
Galeon I downloaded from ftp.sourceforge.net: ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/galeon/ ...currently looks like: galeon_0.10.5-1.mozilla.0.8.1_i386.deb I see only rpm files and tar.gz files there. The download page says to look in ftp://galeon.ufies.org/pub/galeon/debian

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:36:57AM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I wrote: It still crashes, and it [Galeon] still gives me no control of images. Karsten M. Self writes: What image controls do you want? Netscape lets me turn off images in preferences and then click on

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: Settings / Preferences / Advanced / Filtering / Cookie Manager ...brings up a Persistent Data Manger dialog with options for: There is no 'Filtering' under ' Settings / Preferences / Advanced'. There is under 'Browsing', but it offers no relevant choices. You're

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:15:40PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self writes: Settings / Preferences / Advanced / Filtering / Cookie Manager ...brings up a Persistent Data Manger dialog with options for: There is no 'Filtering' under ' Settings /

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:17:10AM -0400, geordie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm looking for feedback,

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:14:54AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: Mozilla I'm getting through the standard Debian packages. It hasn't changed version since stable. Is that okay? No need for anything newer?

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: Version? Of both Galeon and Mozilla. 0.8.3 and M18-3. There's no point in persuing this further, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:36:42PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:22:29AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: noah writes: I changed my mind when I saw that it depends on GNOME crap. Can't I install a browser without installing a fscking desktop environment? Yes.

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Hall Stevenson
* John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010515 20:29]: Karsten M. Self writes: Version? Of both Galeon and Mozilla. 0.8.3 and M18-3. There's no point in persuing this further, though. Just stick with Netscape Navigator/Communicator... you've pretty indicated that *nothing* will satisfy you,

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Hall Stevenson writes: ...you've pretty indicated that *nothing* will satisfy you, even a browser you've never tried. ??? What's your problem? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread ha shao
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:55:35AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:20:19PM +0800, ha shao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am not. Try use it with 64MB of RAM Doing same. Galeon's running with about 17 tabs open. I'm starting to cut into swap. OK, when

Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm looking for feedback, particularly on anything I might have missed. http://home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html I might add that I'm quite pleased

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-14 Thread ktb
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've updated my review of GNU/Linux web browsing alternatives, largely in light of recent advances by the Mozilla and Galeon teams. I'm looking for feedback, particularly on anything I might have missed.