[ale] browser recc's?

[Thompson Freeman]

I tried Amaya a year or more ago (if memory serves), and was not
particularly impressed either with speed or stability. OTOH, my hardware
was getting old at the time, so some of the trouble could have been me,
and me not know it. YMMV

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Brian J. Dowd wrote:

> Has anyone tried the W3C's Amaya browser and composer from www.w3c.org/amaya ?
> -Brian
> 
> > I wiped Netscape off my pc a long time ago, it just isn't stable.
> > Instead, I use KFM for all my web browsing. It doesn't have the bells and
> > whistles of Netscape, but it doesn't crash, either.
> >
> > Opera may be available for Linux soon. It worked very well (fast, small
> > footprint, etc) on Windows.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Irv Mullins
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > > I've been having problems with 4.6 under kernel 2.2.11. When it dies, it
> > > takes down the entire machine. Keyboard, mouse, AND NETWORKING. I can't
> > > even ssh or telnet in to kill the process. Requires a cold reboot (ugh) to
> > > recover. As this is going to be a web server, I can't keep rebooting it. I
> > > uninstalled, reinstalled, redownloaded, repeated all of the above and
> > > still Netscape dies. It's not dropping core so I have no diagnostics I can
> > > do. Lynx works, but I miss the icon on slashdot :(
> >
> > > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Rob Butera wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi folks.
> > > >
> > > > Is it just me, or have recent versions of Netscape been hanging up
> > > > a lot more than they used to.  It seems that both 4.5 and 4.61 lock
> > > > up on a regular basis, even on pages without Java Applets (and even
> > > > more on the pages that do have them).  I have been running on 2.2.5
> > > > and 2.2.10 kernels, on a system that is (mostly) SUSE 6.1.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone reccomend another browser (maybe a Mozilla derivative)
> > > > that is more stable?  If it matters at all, I am running the 128-bit
> > > > encryption version.
> > .........
> > > > Last time I looked at "other" browsers (2+ years ago), nothing really
> > > > came close to NS and IE.   I suspect that things have changed, especially
> > > > with the opening of the Mozilla source -- any reccomendations?
> >
> > > >
> 

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