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

[Frank Brand]

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> 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


Its one thing dealing with people like dyed-in-the-wool Linux people.
They will do anything to avoid MS products...even to the detriment of
their own system performance. But, to a commercial company that can say
"Hey, why are you stuffing me around like this with the crazy Linux
system - Netscape is a dog, Opera gives me Java problems and Galleon has
all sorts of other fixes that I need to install and manage. Why don't we
just use Windows or Windows 2000"?   Their logic is compelling.

The comany that I am thinking of is totally web-based and operates
around the world. All company accounting and administration etc. is done
via the web, GST (VAT in the Uk) is accounted for on the web. Their site
is totally graphical...way way graphical and even the odd fallover gets
up their nose....when the browser crashes it makes them wonder whether
the transactions have gone thru or not... IE does the job , others do
not...QED.

As I previously remarked, at the time I did not see the significance of
the browser wars but now it is becoming clearer. 



> 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?
> 

Yup, I looked at Galleon but it was not that simplistic and I decided to
wait until later in the cycle...if the cycle ever completes.

As I said before ... given that IE is way ahead of others, and nobody I
know seriously refutes that ... and I own legal copies of NT4 and 2000,
the logical thing to do is to use one of those for an internet machine.

FLAME BAIT for sure I know, but I have been using Netscape on Linux
almost exclusively as my internet machine for about 5 years now and
Netscape seems to be going backwards not forwards, Opera and Konqueror
are not yet great, Galleon is in the formative stages and about 10 other
browsers (including a couple that did look promising but disappeared off
the face of the earth) have not proved to be durable.

Anybody want to give an update on Galleon...last time I looked it was
about version 0.3

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Frank Brand
E-mail:- fbrand at uq.net.au
Home Page:-http://www.uq.net.au/~zzfbrand

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