Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-29 Thread Alex Salmon
hi debian woody x 4.0.2 and konqueror Has never crashed either the os, x ,or its-self.. i have not had any problems besides very occasionaly ie at loki games i have to scroll down to the very bottom to click on a link and now click on the funny rocks at the top.. By reboot, I mean I have

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
netscape 4.75 is pretty damn rock solid. Although ive found that it has become less stable since i first installed linux (2 years ago) and its most likely some underlying library quirk. Im totally hooked on mozilla. Mozilla m17 was good, m18 was better, 0.6 was batter again and 0.7 absolutely

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-29 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:04:50PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: I beleive Mozilla also conforms to w3c standards and http 1.1 unlike IE in some (maybe all) cases. I don't know enough javascript to get myself out of whatever trouble it can get you into, but the Web guy at work curses Netscape-6

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-29 Thread Greg
Spot on Andrew, My wish is that browsers and page designers would be more lightweight, I surf without java, javascript, flash, or any other "wizz-bang" effects, that can be avoided. Who gives a stuff what a M$ program does under M$, I use Linux by choice, and the problems seem to get fixed,

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
Javascript is different, and ive found most javascript mucks about. IE did the same to netscape but IE has taken over. I dont believe that a 'standard' should hold back progress (if you want to call it that) SSL works fine in moz 0.7 (/me logs into sourceforge) and personal security manager now

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-29 Thread Craige McWhirter
Some distributions ship more stable variations of applications or include scripts that go a bit of the way to ensuring some less stable programmes perform better. It has been my experience that RedHat/Mandrake sacrifice stability in favour of being "first". Depends on what you want ;) On Mon,

Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-28 Thread Crossfire
enterfornone was once rumoured to have said: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:50:16PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: Greetings. I am new to both this mailing list and to Linux. I am striving to have a Microsoft (opps, I said that dirty word) free computer. good luck! :) If you

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
Haha, cant surf the web in linux, you should be a comedian. heres a tip www.mozilla.org most dists install netscape by default. I honestly cant think of anything windows has over linux. maybe divx, ill give windows divx for now as libavifile is kinda shakey. Windows has mastered crashing, and

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-28 Thread enterfornone
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:01:03PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: Haha, cant surf the web in linux, you should be a comedian. heres a tip www.mozilla.org most dists install netscape by default. I honestly cant think of anything windows has over linux. maybe divx, ill give windows divx

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-28 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:00:05PM +1100, enterfornone wrote: it's certainly pre-beta at present. Netscape 4 is a joke. I'll use Lynx or wget if I need to quickly look up a URL without rebooting. At present if I'm going to be doing any serious web browsing I need to reboot. Not because

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-28 Thread Craige McWhirter
I wonder what your system does that my systems do not? Perhaps it is the distro that is the difference. I'm not going to leap to the defence of Netscape/Moz as I do have issues with those but I have never had to reboot because of them (in about 6 years). Using Linux fulltime as a desktop at work

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-28 Thread Crossfire
Andrew Reilly was once rumoured to have said: On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:00:05PM +1100, enterfornone wrote: it's certainly pre-beta at present. Netscape 4 is a joke. I'll use Lynx or wget if I need to quickly look up a URL without rebooting. At present if I'm going to be doing any

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-28 Thread chesty
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:00:05PM +1100, enterfornone wrote: Can't say I've tried installing Win3 on my PIII, but 2000 and IE is considerably faster and more stable than Linux and Netscape or Mozilla. IE probably does start faster than netscape on linux or windows. But you're comparing a

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-28 Thread enterfornone
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:39:16PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: I wonder what your system does that my systems do not? Perhaps it is the distro that is the difference. I'm not going to leap to the defence of Netscape/Moz as I do have issues with those but I have never had to reboot because

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

2001-01-28 Thread enterfornone
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:34:04PM +1100, Martin wrote: I have found that Netscape 4 is a little less stable than IE. But when I say a little I mean just that, a little. If Netscape is crashing in a way that causes you to need to reboot, you have a serious, serious problem, one you need to