Re: best browser now

2009-02-11 Thread joe
On Feb 10, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Dan wrote: At 3:48 PM -0600 2/9/2009, joe wrote: Ha! No luck at all. Clicktoflash works fine--gives me a box for anything flash and lets me click to load and play them. But Safari just went all crash-happy on me again. I had one window with the JREF forum

Re: best browser now

2009-02-10 Thread dorayme
Date: Mon, Feb 9 2009 8:33 am From: joe There is no total solution, other than just blocking all flash content. Flash is a horrible horrible horrible POS. Anyone tried the FF add-on Flashblock? -- dorayme --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: best browser now

2009-02-10 Thread Bob Whiton
Anyone tried the FF add-on Flashblock? It's worked fine for me, first on a Sawtooth G4 with 10.3 and now on a C2D iMac with 10.5. Bob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those

Re: best browser now

2009-02-10 Thread Dan
At 3:48 PM -0600 2/9/2009, joe wrote: Ha! No luck at all. Clicktoflash works fine--gives me a box for anything flash and lets me click to load and play them. But Safari just went all crash-happy on me again. I had one window with the JREF forum open and tried to open cnn.com's home page.

Re: best browser now

2009-02-09 Thread Dan
At 6:38 PM -0600 2/8/2009, joe wrote: What about stability? I used Webkit/Safari for a while, but it got crashier and crashier. Safari 3.2.1 crashes on me regularly because one of the sites I frequent has some funky JavaScript. This crash started with the release of Safari 3. WebKit Nightly

Re: best browser now

2009-02-09 Thread joe
At 6:38 PM -0600 2/8/2009, joe wrote: What about stability? Safari 3.2.1 crashes on me regularly because one of the sites I frequent has some funky JavaScript. This crash started with the release of Safari 3. WebKit Nightly has been very very stable for me. It even handles the bad

Re: best browser now

2009-02-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 9, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Dan wrote: Firefox 3, the latest 3.1 beta, and Minefield all crash easily for me. Just curious Dan, where are you getting Minefield/ Shiretoko crashes? It has been fairly stable for me since it came out of the early pre- Alpha builds. I am using the main trunk

Re: best browser now

2009-02-09 Thread Dan
At 10:33 AM -0600 2/9/2009, joe wrote: Yea. Most of the crashes are due to Flash. You can tell easily, if you look at the crash log. The thread marked as crashed will have all sorts of references to adobe and flash in it. There is no total solution, other than just blocking all flash content.

Re: best browser now

2009-02-09 Thread Dan
At 11:41 AM -0500 2/9/2009, Len Gerstel wrote: On Feb 9, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Dan wrote: Firefox 3, the latest 3.1 beta, and Minefield all crash easily for me. Just curious Dan, where are you getting Minefield/ Shiretoko crashes? It has been fairly stable for me since it came out of the early

Re: best browser now

2009-02-08 Thread joe
What about stability? I used Webkit/Safari for a while, but it got crashier and crashier. I've mostly used Firefox and Webkit (and plain Safari), but it seems like they all get really crashy until I wipe out everything that I can wipe out (which gets to be a PITA). I realize a lot of this

Re: best browser now

2009-02-01 Thread Trinette Rani Johnson
Best browser? I think it's no such thing. Whatever you like is the best. I have Opera 10 beta,Safari 4 beta,Webkit,iCab,IE,and something called Demeter(Webkit),Sunrise/Niagra(Webkit),and Wyzo(Firefox 2). Most of don't know about all these user-made versions but they are there. All

Re: best browser now

2009-02-01 Thread tortoise
On Jan 31, 8:17 am, Peter peter1...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 31, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Dan wrote: At 8:39 PM -0800 1/30/2009, tortoise wrote: It seems to me that icab is now fastest browser for powerpc. I should have been clearer perhaps. I had tried icab before and found it slow, even

Re: best browser now

2009-01-31 Thread Dan A. Currie
tortoise wrote: It seems to me that icab is now fastest browser for powerpc. I had been using firefox and then I went to a g4 optimized version of Seamonkey. Then I got the newest icab. Its quite a bit better on my 550g4 (7410). Fastest browser ... I don't know. I have tried iCab,

Re: best browser now

2009-01-31 Thread Brian Durant
Netscape is no longer supported with security updates: http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/ Brian On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Dan A. Currie danc...@frontiernet.net wrote: tortoise wrote: It seems to me that icab is now fastest browser for

Re: best browser now

2009-01-31 Thread Dan
At 8:39 PM -0800 1/30/2009, tortoise wrote: It seems to me that icab is now fastest browser for powerpc. I had been using firefox and then I went to a g4 optimized version of Seamonkey. Then I got the newest icab. Its quite a bit better on my 550g4 (7410). iCab does seem pretty quick. I'm

Re: best browser now

2009-01-31 Thread Peter
On Jan 31, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Dan wrote: At 8:39 PM -0800 1/30/2009, tortoise wrote: It seems to me that icab is now fastest browser for powerpc. I had been using firefox and then I went to a g4 optimized version of Seamonkey. Then I got the newest icab. Its quite a bit better on my

Re: best browser now

2009-01-31 Thread Stephen Conrad
So far I have seen nearly every browser mentioned except Opera, Safari and IE. I happen to keep Firefox, iCab, Opera and Safari on my computer (I ignore the version of IE that came with it). Opera isn't bad and on occasion I use it (along with all the others I have except IE). On 1/31/09, Peter

best browser now

2009-01-30 Thread tortoise
It seems to me that icab is now fastest browser for powerpc. I had been using firefox and then I went to a g4 optimized version of Seamonkey. Then I got the newest icab. Its quite a bit better on my 550g4 (7410). --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this