Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
I'm not sure I understand what you mean about the bookmarks. I've found the operation of Mozilla M18 to be pretty fair considering that it's not a finished product yet. As far as performance goes it's almost as fast and stable as Netscape 4.75. While it still doesn't handle Java yet it is far

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-17 Thread Larry Marshall
Bookmarks??? I thought they handled just fine. When I'm cleaning them up and placing them in seperate folders I usually just cut and paste them from one place to another. That's the same as I've always done with them Two things here Mark. First, I wrote that before I figured out that I can

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-15 Thread Jay
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote: I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted. -- Carroll (not a Netscape fan) Is there anyone who's a Netscape fan (grin)? It still holds the title as being

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-15 Thread Jay
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote: Just to add my two-pennies worth to the thread. I use netscape all the time and it has never crashed yet, quite something when you read some of the complaints on here. Also as I use to have 24 hours online connection for free and it worked perfectly

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Jay wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote: Just to add my two-pennies worth to the thread. I use netscape all the time and it has never crashed yet, quite something when you read some of the complaints on here. Also as I use to have 24 hours online connection for free and it worked

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-15 Thread Patti Wavinak
Original Message On 10/14/00, 6:02:27 AM, Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Opera Beta: Is there anyone who's a Netscape fan (grin)? It still holds the title as being the only application capable of crashing my Linux system and it kills itself on a regular

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-15 Thread Larry Marshall
and felt the need to answer this. I guess you could say that I am a Netscape fan -- I use Netscape 4.75 with Mandrake 7.1 on a DSL (yes I have an Did you find the 4.73 -4.75 upgrade to be worth the effort? excellent firewall ;-) ) and only when I am doing about 10,000 things at once does

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-15 Thread Larry Marshall
Gecko engine. Personlly I'm going to by-pass Netscape 6 all togther and when MoZilla is ready I'm going to use it. It's much nicer than Netscape 4.7x and superior to Netscape 6. They're using the same base code but the Mark...maybe I've got blinders on but what is "much nicer than Netscape

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-15 Thread Larry Marshall
:) yes Larry, as a matter of fact there is life after Nutscrape. It's called Mozilla. However, until Mozilla is completely finished you might want to try getting the tarball of Opera 4b. all it is is a binary inside the tarball. Completely standalone and you can run it from your home dir,

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Jay
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, you wrote: Good evening: I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted. -- Carroll (not a Netscape fan) -- I have used Opera on Windows since 3.0. I love this browser! I

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Paul
It was Oct 14, 2000, 04:22, when Jay keyboarded: I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted. -- Carroll (not a Netscape fan) -- I have used Opera on Windows since 3.0. I love this browser! I

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Eddie Torres
Well, there's Galeon, gnome browser which needs GTK and Mozilla M17+ to run. The only other option I can see if waiting for KDE2 and give Konqueror a try. I am pretty sure that Opera will be a pay for program. -- On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 09:02:27 Larry Marshall wrote: I understand that

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Jeff Malka
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote: I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted. -- Carroll (not a Netscape fan) Is there anyone who's a Netscape fan (grin)? It still holds the title as being

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 04:22:51 -0400, you wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, you wrote: Good evening: I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted. -- Carroll (not a Netscape fan) -- I have used Opera

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Larry Marshall
I just downloaded Opera 4b and installed it without a problem. It loads well and fast. After going through some pages, I think there is definitely a future for Opera with Linux :) I would agree Paul. I still can't figure out why the rpms I download fail but the tarfile installed without

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Larry Marshall
Well, there's Galeon, gnome browser which needs GTK and Mozilla M17+ to run. The only other option I can see if waiting for KDE2 and give Konqueror a try. I am pretty sure that Opera will be a pay for program. My understanding (without any personal knowledge) is that Mozilla has its own

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Larry Marshall
I think most of the "true" linux experts use the text browsers which coming from the gui world I find inadequate. I tried linux opera. It is very fast and looks terrific but still has problems. So I will wait for later versions. You may be right but it would seem to my poorly informed

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Larry Marshall
I'm right there with you, Jay. I've used Opera since 3.4 something...don't remember what #exactly, but it was before 3.5 came out. And though I do understand it will have its detractors because of the open source thing, as well as the price tag thing (I heard $39 clams will be the ransom of

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Larry Marshall
I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted. -- Carroll (not a Netscape fan) Carrol, no bravery is required. The one really nice thing is that it simply loads your Netscape bookmarks into a

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Just to add my two-pennies worth to the thread. I use netscape all the time and it has never crashed yet, quite something when you read some of the complaints on here. Also as I use to have 24 hours online connection for free and it worked perfectly thoughout hours of use, it is really weird

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Paul
It was Oct 14, 2000, 09:02, when Larry Marshall keyboarded: Is there anyone who's a Netscape fan (grin)? It still holds the title as being the only application capable of crashing my Linux system and it kills itself on a regular basis. Perhaps I am not smart, but as far as Linux goes, and also

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Paul
It was Oct 14, 2000, 12:02, when Larry Marshall keyboarded: :-) I find using Lynx to be a ball as it's SOOOo quick. But all too much of the web is "lost" in the translation from what I can see. Use Lynx for informational sites, with lots of text. That's what it is great for :) Paul --

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Paul
It was Oct 14, 2000, 11:46, when Larry Marshall keyboarded: I just downloaded Opera 4b and installed it without a problem. It loads well and fast. After going through some pages, I think there is definitely a future for Opera with Linux :) I would agree Paul. I still can't figure out why

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Larry Marshall
I use netscape all the time and it has never crashed yet, quite something when you read some of the complaints on here. Also as I use to have 24 hours online connection for free and it worked perfectly thoughout hours of use, it is really weird to here of all the slating. This is

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Larry Marshall
:-) I find using Lynx to be a ball as it's SOOOo quick. But all too much of the web is "lost" in the translation from what I can see. Use Lynx for informational sites, with lots of text. That's what it is great for :) Paul...could you give me an example of such a site? I'm not

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Just to add my two-pennies worth to the thread. I use netscape all the time and it has never crashed yet, quite something when you read some of the complaints on here. Also as I use to have 24 hours online connection for free and it worked perfectly thoughout

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Larry Marshall
least a 200Mhz machine and 64Mb of RAM you might try a stable Mozilla build. You have to watch and pick one from a good day (not to hard, look at Mozzilla Zine for help w/ this) but if you do so it runs very stable and somewhat quickly. Depending on the day you choose stabilty and speed Are

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, you wrote: I use netscape all the time and it has never crashed yet, quite something when you read some of the complaints on here. Also as I use to have 24 hours online connection for free and it worked perfectly thoughout hours of use, it is really weird to here of

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-14 Thread Larry Marshall
Well for starters I don't use it for e-mail. I prefer Pine or Kmail for that. As I said, many of my problems with Netscape went away when I stopped using it for mail. with a Cyric MII 300Mhz processor yet I have had no problems what so ever. The version of netscape I am using is the one

[newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-13 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Good evening: I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted. -- Carroll (not a Netscape fan)

Re: [newbie] Opera Beta

2000-10-13 Thread Eddie Torres
TED] From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Opera Beta Good evening: I understand that Opera has released the beta of version 4.0. If you're braver than I am, you may wish to give it a try. If so, keep us posted. -- Carroll (not a Netscape fan)