On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:30:47 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > --nextPart4349252.rWh3h2apeg > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > In <slrnh8683n.531....@laptop.sweetpig.dyndns.org>, S. Fishpaste wrote: >>In a normal laptop/workstation GUI environment few applications are as >>important as a web browser (especially these days). A web worker for >> example relies on a web browser pretty heavily. Not everyone using Debian >> is using it on a server, you know. ;-) > > I have been quite happy with the Konqueror in Squeeze along-side the=20 > IceWeasel in Lenny and I use a web-browser for work every day. I can=20 > understand the desire to update if IW fails to render some page you require= >=20 > for work. I think most users should be able to work with the Debian- > supported version in Lenny.
Well yes and no. There are *significant* speed increases in the FF 3.5 branch. Kongi is OK, it's using webkit now FWIU. So, it and Chrome should be similar. I have to admit to being partial to Chrome. I like it's minimalistic approach, extension support is coming along nicely and will be in the Linux version soon. I do have Google Chrome running excellent (it's quite faster than it was in Windoze XP-Pro which was on this laptop until just recently. I don't run Gnome or KDE as my laptop is rather ancient, circa 2001. So no Konqueror (It's my "netbook"). I'm using Icewm and finding it to be nice and light. I used XFce back in the day, now it seems bloated and slow on this P3. I've also heard it has a nasty memory leak; but Icewm has survived, as I remember it. Yeah, Iknow I could install some KDE libs to be able to use Kongi, but presently my system partition is 60% full (remember oldish laptop, smaller HDD) so I think it's full enough. ;-) > If you find a bug in stable/testing/unstable/experimental (like a web page= >=20 > that doesn't render properly, or a plug-in that breaks), you should really= >=20 > file a bug so that Debian can backport a fix once the Mozilla team produces= >=20 > one. O OK. Cheers. Steve Toronto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
