But if the browsers don't work right most of the time and enable you to
utilize the web to its fullest, none of that open source stuff means much.
Mark Butler
----- Original Message -----
From: Kaplan, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 8:28 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] alternative browser?
> I didn't think I could create that much controversy just by suggesting an
> alternative! No matter what people think about Amaya, Netscape, kfm or
any
> other program, the great thing about Linux is you can obtain and install
any
> or all of them and use which ever one works best for a particular purpose.
> **********************************************************
> Paul L. Kaplan, Ph.D., M.B.A.
> Program Manager, Neurosciences
> Creative BioMolecules (www.creativebio.com <http://www.creativebio.com> )
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 2:15 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] alternative browser?
>
> Chip Wiegand wrote:
> >
> > Amaya, Oh MYA! What a mess it makes of web pages in Linux!
> I tried just yahoo
> > and my companys web site. Yahoo was somewhat navigable, at
> least I could change
> > to various pages. My companys website was all screwed up,
> and it is supposedly
> > backwards compatible to the 2.x web browsers.
> > Chip
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > > >Try Amaya for a graphical browser. www.w3.org
> <http://www.w3.org>
> > >
> > >
> > > Yeah, try Amaya for a good time, a couple of
> laughs...but probably not for a
> > > stable browser. I don't know how it fares on Linux but
> on Windoze, it can't
> > > display web pages (jumbles of words overlapping one
> another) and it crashed
> > > my machine within 2 minutes. Total piece of junk. Too
> bad, too, because if
> > > there's one thing this world needs it's a lightweight,
> customizable,
> > > developer-friendly GPL browser. Anyone have other
> suggestions?
> > >
> > > Gregg
>
>
> I thought it was my voodoo banshee card. whew..
>
> What a mess.
>
> It's gone from my system now..
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