Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 14:47:48 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Browser wars (was Re: Taming Netscape Navigator?) Message-ID: <20020308134748.GB49477@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <200203081302.g28D2XC29103@dungeon.home> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0203011634360.2796-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <3C7FB956.18428.510B414@localhost> <20020301201318.C3880@over-yonder.net> <200203051407.g25E7WF10805@dungeon.home> <20020305105330.H3880@over-yonder.net> <200203061331.g26DVFe15485@dungeon.home> <20020306155828.GA11735@hades.hell.gr> <200203081302.g28D2XC29103@dungeon.home>
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On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:02:33PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > On Wednesday, 6th March 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > >On 2002-03-06 23:31, Stephen McKay wrote: > > > >> I haven't yet seen a current generation window manager I can stomach, > >> and vtwm is good for a couple dozen windows, not hundreds. Actually, > >> even so-called modern window managers are poor at handling 100 windows. > > > >Actually, so-called modern humans are also poor at handling 100 windows! > >HOLLY GHOST! What do you need 100 windows for? > > Well, it sort of creeps up on you. Every day I seem to open and half read > a couple more web pages than I close. After a month or so, that starts > to add up, and I often hit 100 open windows in Opera. I never got that > far with Netscape because it got too cluttered much faster, and let's > face it, Netscape never stayed up long enough to open that many windows. > Opera also has that really handy "Resume from when you left off" feature > for those occasions when it does crash. That makes preserving your 100 > half-read pages a breeze! :-) > Oh bah to that, Netscape has the superior feature of resuming where you started off from, and you get there several times a day as a bonus :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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