From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 2 7:16:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B8A37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:16:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA19152; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:16:06 -0700 (MST) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook may make your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020402081116.00e369a0@nospam.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@nospam.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:15:58 -0700 To: "Anthony Atkielski" , From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix In-Reply-To: <002d01c1da0d$f4043130$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020401153352.02b99760@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020401184152.00e3ed10@nospam.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:16 PM 4/1/2002, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >Brett writes: > >> Which Netscape? I'm running 4.79, and the page >> is ugly. > >You're running a version that contains thousands of bugs and was obsolete >years ago. It's no more buggy than anything else out there. And it's a classic, which millions of people run. There's no excuse for creating pages that it won't render properly. It had some spyware features, but there were options to disable them. Those options disappeared in 6.0. > I run 6.0, which is also obsolete, I guess, but I only use it to >test pages. Netscape 6.0 is bloated spyware and crashes on many machines.... Far inferior to Netscape 4.x, IMHO. I've thought about running Mozilla, but it seems to retain most of the same bloat and also seems to have spyware features that you can't disable. > My usual browser is MSIE 6.0, Can't trust it. Have you seen the latest round of nasty exploits for it? >and sometimes I run Opera 6.0, >which is of about equal quality (but not free). We have Opera 5.1 running on some systems, but Opera 6.0 is a CPU and memory hog; it brings many of our systems to their knees. Of all of these, Netscape 4.79 seems to be the best tradeoff. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message