begin Peter Rundle quotation:
> Well I can't really flame you on mozilla mail cause I like it too
> especially now 0.9.4 has "total" and "unread" for mail folders.
> (Sometimes the refresh on the message pane is a bit slow though).
>
> BUT, mozilla the browser needs some work. I doesn't do java apps in
> linux, oh sure it's meant to but it doesn't.
I'll be curious to find out if its OJI interface is useful, as soon as a
decent open-source JVM exists. Not _very_ curious, because I have yet
to see a really useful Java app (other than Mindterm, which I don't
really need).
> It can't do https either it seems....
As a point of information, I use httpd on Mozilla 0.9.3 pretty much all
day long. Works flawlessly -- with no NSA-mandated crippling of the
crypto functions.
> ...and some sites imagemap hrefs just don't work.
I hadn't tested that until you wrote the above. http://www.ihip.com/
seems to work fine. Ditto http://lightsphere.com/dev/ismaps/
Ditto http://www.parliament.ge/~nino/georgia.html Ditto
http://persia.org/imagemap/imagemap.html
I don't use imagemaps much; I'd be curious to see some examples of ones
that don't work on Mozilla 0.9.x but do on some other browsers.
> Also needs about 3 more cups of performance added to it. (though once
> it is launched it renders pages pretty darn quick, and I love the
> "block images from this server" option. Get's rid of those flashing
> adds real quick).
Yes. Opening additional Mozilla windows is also pretty darned slow.
Galeon and Skipstone are a lot faster at that.
> Does anyone know of / use a *good* graphical browser for linux, (a
> serious competitor to IE on Doze), like it does Java apps, handles https,
> doesn't screw up framesets by getting the sizes wrong.
I don't consider MSIE to be suitable at all. I can't even remember all
the objectionable bits, but here's what I was able to recall recently:
No other browser had a cached so poorly implemented that it crippled
disk performance. None had a cookies implementation completely
uncontrollable by setting file permissions. No others had the gall to
advertise themselves on every printout. No others introduced ActiveX
holes in your system security.
> Java script works properly
You mean you're able to shut it off? ;->
Anyhow:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#linuxbrowser
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