Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-11 Thread Joe Zien
Zenaan Harkness wrote: I need a sane webbrowser. Firstly, I'm not interested in rolling releases. In my experience, Firefox 3.6 was the pinnacle in browsers, in the days when Epiphany was also a fine option. Things appear to have gone downhill bigtime since then, as far as I can tell. Seeking

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-11 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 2013-03-10 04:03, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Sorry, sorry, I'm ranting again! I promise I'll keep it to browsers. There are plenty of other threads we_could_ create. I use Firefox. Why? Because I use Thunderbird and I'd rather not load WebKit for another purpse. What I mean is I want to keep

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread steef
Zenaan Harkness schreef: I need a sane webbrowser. Firstly, I'm not interested in rolling releases. In my experience, Firefox 3.6 was the pinnacle in browsers, in the days when Epiphany was also a fine option. Things appear to have gone downhill bigtime since then, as far as I can tell.

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
try seamonkey (mozilla-branch) i use it to my needs (browsing and mailing) for years without any trouble. Thanks guys, I forgot about seamonkey. Found iceape. Will give it a try. Very much appreciate the pointer/reminder, Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: the seamonkey package may be what you're looking for. It combines firefox with thunderbird in a single package and uses less system resources. It also doesn't update constantly either. Technically, it does not

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread Karl E.
Hi On 10/03/13 01:03:53, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I need a sane webbrowser. ... What I've tried: ... * Epiphany Epiphany. How I loved epiphany back in the days of Gnome 2 and Firefox 3.5, when I took a walk on the wild side of Ubuntu, and settled in on Ubuntu 8.04. Firefox 3.6

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/11/13, Karl E. k...@jorgensen.org.uk wrote: On 10/03/13 01:03:53, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I need a sane webbrowser. ... * Epiphany Epiphany. How I loved epiphany back in the days of Gnome 2 and Firefox 3.5, when I took a walk on the wild side of Ubuntu, and settled in on Ubuntu 8.04.

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:03:53PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I need a sane webbrowser. Firstly, I'm not interested in rolling releases. In my experience, Firefox 3.6 was the pinnacle in browsers, in the days when Epiphany was also a fine option. Things appear to have gone downhill

choosing a web browser

2013-03-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I need a sane webbrowser. Firstly, I'm not interested in rolling releases. In my experience, Firefox 3.6 was the pinnacle in browsers, in the days when Epiphany was also a fine option. Things appear to have gone downhill bigtime since then, as far as I can tell. Seeking something that is 100%

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Update: * Google Chromium This does not appear (in an hour of usage) to have the CPU-spikes problem of iceweasel/firefox. Performance is fine on my modern laptop. Tabs work; CTRL-PgUp/Dn works. Has private browsing mode. I'm hoping proxy settings are remembered. Only downer is: does not

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Update: * Google Chromium This does not appear (in an hour of usage) to have the CPU-spikes problem of iceweasel/firefox. Performance is fine on my modern laptop. Tabs work; CTRL-PgUp/Dn works. Has private browsing

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/10/13, Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Update: * Google Chromium .. Only downer is: does not integrate with standard (XFCE) style desktop/windows theme - ie Windows XP style windows theme. Chromium

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
the seamonkey package may be what you're looking for. It combines firefox with thunderbird in a single package and uses less system resources. It also doesn't update constantly either. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net

choosing default web browser in mutt

2005-08-03 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Following excellent advice here recently, I used update-alternatives to make sure firefox is the system default web browser. AFAICT this is working fine. The problem arises in mutt. If I right-click on a link within an email, firefox will launch and display the page. However, if I receive

Re: choosing default web browser in mutt

2005-08-03 Thread Tom
[03/08/2005 -- 19:34u] Clive Menzies: The mutt manual refers to adding: macro index \cb |urlview\n macro pager \cb |urlview\n to the .muttrc file but this has no noticeable effect. It should make up a list of URLs contained in the message, each of which you can view with the default browser

Re: choosing default web browser in mutt SOLVED

2005-08-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/08/05 19:54), Tom wrote: [03/08/2005 -- 19:34u] Clive Menzies: The mutt manual refers to adding: macro index \cb |urlview\n macro pager \cb |urlview\n to the .muttrc file but this has no noticeable effect. It should make up a list of URLs contained in the message, each of which