On Saturday 08 December 2001 07:56 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > > > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to > > > > prefer it to Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? > > > > > > I'd far and away recommend Galeon. Mozilla and Konqueror round out the > > > top of the full-featured browser offerings for GNU/Linux. All three > > > are feature-rich, standards compliant, stable, and extremely useable. > > > Galeon's got polish and an attention to user-friendly detail which > > > simply inspires awe and gratitude. > > > > > > Netscape 4.x is a buggy, standards-busting, festering load of crap. It > > > was one of the worst things to happen to GNU/Linux -- the browsing > > > experience is one of the more important aspects of personal computing, > > > and we lagged the legacy MS Windows / Mac world for years. I'd give > > > odds to say we're starting to lead again. > > > > <SIGH/> All browsers suck. > > Karsten's Iron Rule of Browsers: they all suck. > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html > > ...but I take it back. Galeon Kicks AssĀ®. > > > Anything derived from mozilla is a horrible memory hog > > 46MB currently, with about a dozen tabs open. Considering a session can > go over 100 tabs (really!), and rarely tops 120 MB, it's reasonably OK. > Memory's cheap. Galeon _doesn't_ appear to leak the way Netscape 4.x > did.
Is it apt-gettable from woody? no? I'm not interested :) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com