Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:59:47 -0000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Mark Hendriks" <markh@lon.imag.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Another Browser, Was: IE for FreeBSD Message-ID: <02eb01bef963$28bff5a0$827e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <199909061339.GAA19703@superman.imag.net>
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Opera still looks quite amateurish ...... and if you have heaps of windows open there is no easy way of telling whats going on in each ..... at least the (admittedly bloated) MSIE & Netscape tell you clearly whats running I'm looking around for an alternative also ..... I like the simplicity of HotJava but its a worse resource hog than either MSIE or Netscape. My Solaris machine has a 400 Celeron & 96Mb RAM so its OK there, but don't know if it would be much use in a 386 for example. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Hendriks <markh@lon.imag.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 1:39 PM Subject: Another Browser, Was: IE for FreeBSD > "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone here would like to get together with me and > >see if we can bug Microsoft to release a version of Internet Explorer for > >FreeBSD (or even Linux) BTW they have it for Solaris and HP-UX currently > > Okay, so Netscape is a bloated piece of crap. Somehow, replacing it with > another bloated piece of crap doesn't get me excited. > > I was going to get into a whole spiel about some very good reasons why > Microsoft will never support Linux, despite other companies they support. > However, this would have discouraged you from being annoying to Microsoft. > You go right ahead. > > So you want an alternative to Netscape? Look at www.opera.com. They're > working on a Linux version of their browser. I've used Opera on Windows 3.1, > and I have to say that I like it. I had to give it up, because it requires > 6MB of ram, and I only have 4 (I've had difficulty trying to upgrade because > of the motherboard.) Still, Opera ran better on my machine than Netscape 3.0, > most of the time. The lack of memory in my machine, combined with the @#$%ed > up memory management scheme in Windows meant that Opera would crash when I went > to a site with large JPEGs. Netscape actually requires much more memory, but > it only ran real slow, as opposed to crashing. > > Please don't be annoying with this company. This is a company that I really do > want to support FreeBSD. So what can you do? Get the Linux version, and let > them know that while FreeBSD will generally run Linux software, a true FreeBSD > version would be better. Inform them about FreeBSD resources on the Net, and > let them know that there is a whole community knowledgable of users willing > to offer support for development. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > bogh tlhInganpu', SuvwI'pu' moj, Hegh > - "Klingons are born, live as warriors, then die." > source: The Klingon Way, Mark Okrand, 1996 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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