Mozilla, Galeon, and other browsers claim to be better, but
often fail to provide features that have been in Netscape
for forever.
You mean features like being stable, at least sometimes?
Efficiency? IMO, Mozilla has features up the kazoo, but the
developers seem unwilling to pursue unfashionable goals such as
making a browser that just works. And in terms of security, a
buggy browser worries me a lot more than Linux emulation.
The Gecko engine developed by the Mozilla Project, however seems
to be very good. I find Galeon quite nice, as it uses Mozilla's
quite capable HTML rendering engine, has its own well designed
GTK-based GUI, and has little of Mozilla's bloat.
Netscape Navigator = 4.? has quite bad HTML rendering, and is
disliked greatly by most web developers I know (not to condone
it, but it's little wonder that many web sites are now designed
for Internet Explorer). I would suggest to anybody still using
Netscape 4 on a Unix platform that they try a replacement
browser, whether that be Mozilla, Galeon, or something else
(perhaps Opera or Konqueror).
If you're looking for a replacement Internet mail client, you
might like to try Mutt, Balsa, Sylpheed, or Evolution.
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MICHAEL WARDLE
SGI Desktop and Sysadmin Software
Adacel Technologies Limited
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