Web Browsers

[Mazarin]

I was running netscape, then mozilla. And i've had, had it with this web browser taking up the majority of my RAM and being slower than any program i've ever used...

I'm not running KDE so i can't use their miracle solution.

Debian is my distro so if you know a solution thats available through apt-get it would be even better.

[pitr]

links

[Mazarin]

It would be kinda cool if it ran in X too.

Forgot to mention that.

[dhaze]

Have you tried Opera

[Tabini]

If you are interested in Opera, check out this review at FreeOS.com:
http://freeos.com/articles/3167/

I use it on my roommate's Windows box and really like it.

[Craig McPherson]

GALEON.

Yes, it's Mozilla-based, so it has that Mozilla Suckage© that'll never go away, but it's not nearly as bad.

Add the Galeon lines from my sources.list to yours if you want to apt it. It works really well.
http://www.bsu-hog.org/sources.list

Things that are still bad about it:

1. The interface is a turd just like Mozilla, but it looks a little better.

2. It eats RAM badly, of course, but it's an improvement.

3. No HTTPS yet, last I checked. Forget about buying anything.

4. Cookies don't seem to work at all yet -- this can probably be changed in the config, but I haven't messed with it much.

5. No plugins, so forget all that Flash and Shockwave stoff.


Anyway, Galeon will probably turn out to be the future once it gets the bugs worked out and people realize Mozilla isn't getting anywhere.

I still use Netscape 4.x because it's still the only USABLE browser that you can actually use to view the majority of web sites out there today, but I like what I've seen of Galeon.

------------------
http://users.ipa.net/~cmcpher/paminv.gif DEBIAN (http://www.debian.org/) http://users.ipa.net/~cmcpher/paminv.gif
It turns girls into statues!

[This message has been edited by Craig McPherson (edited 14 January 2001).]

[milanuk]

I hear what you're screaming about the memory issues... I was dinking around this morning, had about 4 or 5 Navigator windows open, and a Messenger window open. I had noticed the system was a little sluggish earlier, and had killed off a buttload of dnetc clients (bad crontab entry, whoops. 23 clients and counting ;p ). So _after_ I killed off all the errant processes, I was looking thru top, and it showed netscape taking up something like 59% of my memory... which when you consider that this machine has like 384MB RAM, makes for something like oh, say, 230MB or so of RAM _just for Netscape_. Yikes!!! If it keeps that crap up, my swap partition may actually get used http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif

Monte

[Mazarin]

Hey open source developers, I smell a good oppertunity to start a project here.

Maybe I know enough C to make something happen... who knows.

[OS]

Opera rules!

The only downfall is that it doesn't have a GNU licence and costs $40USD. It has bugs but still runs better than netscape on my system.

Owen


------------------
Owen Stampflee - info@1320web.com
1320webmedia - Affordable, High Performance Internet Solutions.
AOL Screenname: info 1320web - Website: www.1320web.com (http://www.1320web.com)

[OliverW]

I agree, Opera is the fastest and best browser available for Linux right now. It has a very nice feel and as mentioned above, fast as hell. The new 4.0b5 doesn't crash anymore.

Give it a try.