[H-CHAT] Re: [H-GEN] Stalling Netscape

[Michael Anthon]

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On 14 Apr 2001 17:00:32 +1000, Frank Brand wrote:
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> Unfortunately, Netscape is beginning to impact on Linux acceptance. I

> have clients who think that the poor browser performance is due to Linux
> being a dog. Maybe Konqueror or Opera will evolve to something nearer
> IE.
 

I have been using Opera almost exclusively on both Windows and Linux for
quite some time now and I'm a big fan of it.  Under Linux I'm using
5.0b7 and can report that it's pretty stable.  I still get the
occasional mysterious crash and there seems to be some odd issue with
cookies (some sites seem to work, others don't) that I haven't tracked
down yet and those horrible annoying javascript popup thingies from
sites like geocities don't work very well (they cover up bits of the
page and you can't get rid of them).
For those sites that don't work with Opera for me I tend to switch to
Koquerer.  I don't like Mozilla, it's big, it's slow, it's bloated, it
crashes a lot.  Galleon seems to be getting good reports, however it
requires that you install Mozilla for the rendering engine.

I know this doesn't help with the original problem, but why stick with
Netscape when it's obviously not doing the job?

Cheers
Michael

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