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engjohn
09-22-01, 12:32 AM
Call me a looser if you will but I have always liked MS explorer better than Netscape.

Now I am running Redhat 7.0 and all I have is netscape. I cannot get to my hotmail account and alot of the text is not clear. I have tried changing the settings, but that did not help.

What I need is a better browser...

any thoughts?
David
09-22-01, 07:14 AM
- Try Netscape 6.1 - I quite like it myself, the UI is much more pleasing to the eye than 4.x

- Mozilla is the open source version of Netscape but quite a resource hungry app

- If you have KDE2 then Konqueror makes an OK browser

- Galeon needs mozilla to be installed but it is fast, nice UI and my personal fav. Unfortunately, its convinced itself that my GNOME installation doesn't exist, so it wont install...

- If its just the text you want, then lynx is a good text mode browser.
su root
09-22-01, 11:43 AM
Microsoft makes Internet Explorer for Linux.
http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/default.asp
engjohn
09-22-01, 12:41 PM
Yea, thanks guys...

I have DL'd Netscape 6 and it seems MUCH better than version 4.

I will try the MS explorer jsut because they make a version for unix.
The say it is for HPUX or Solaris. Do you think it will work with Redhat?

All in all, I think I will stay with Netscape 6.1
ken257
09-24-01, 11:54 AM
Instead of Netscape try the latest build of Mozilla which is the code Netscape is built from but it is a bit more advanced then Netscape.

My browser of choice in Linux is Opera.
Hack
09-24-01, 05:14 PM
Originally posted by ken257

Instead of Netscape try the latest build of Mozilla which is the code Netscape is built from but it is a bit more advanced then Netscape.





My browser of choice in Linux is Opera.



The newest Opera for Linux has working plugin support.. Check it out if you haven't already.

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Tomas
09-24-01, 07:53 PM
Originally posted by engjohn
Call me a looser if you will but I have always liked MS explorer better than Netscape.

Now I am running Redhat 7.0 and all I have is netscape. I cannot get to my hotmail account and alot of the text is not clear. I have tried changing the settings, but that did not help.

What I need is a better browser...

any thoughts?

Try Opera!! Faster and more stable than netscape. www.opera.com
parkan
09-27-01, 12:04 PM
Yep, opera is pretty good.
And the fact that M$ makes IE for linux tells ya somethig, doesn't it...? ;)
mcrites
09-27-01, 12:09 PM
I believe thats only for Solaris, but I am sure it doesnt work in linux. :)
Thelemac
09-27-01, 01:37 PM
Originally posted by penguinfreak
- Try Netscape 6.1 - I quite like it myself, the UI is much more pleasing to the eye than 4.x

- Mozilla is the open source version of Netscape but quite a resource hungry app

- If you have KDE2 then Konqueror makes an OK browser

- Galeon needs mozilla to be installed but it is fast, nice UI and my personal fav. Unfortunately, its convinced itself that my GNOME installation doesn't exist, so it wont install...

- If its just the text you want, then lynx is a good text mode browser.

Links works quite well, too. :) Like lynx, but more of a GUI. It's neat.
Hack
09-29-01, 03:52 AM
Originally posted by penguinfreak

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- Galeon needs mozilla to be installed but it is fast, nice UI and my personal fav. Unfortunately, its convinced itself that my GNOME installation doesn't exist, so it wont install...




You trying to install Galeon from source? Where is Mozilla (/usr/lib)? Where is gnome (/opt/gnome)?

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Hack
09-29-01, 03:56 AM
Originally posted by Thelemac







Links works quite well, too. :) Like lynx, but more of a GUI. It's neat.



Have to give it a look. I prefer lightweights, they tend to run faster (that's why my preferred wm is icewm)..



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Hack
09-29-01, 04:28 AM
Originally posted by parkan














Yep, opera is pretty good.















And the fact that M$ makes IE for linux tells ya somethig, doesn't it...? ;)














BIG questions! 1st in my mind is, is it any better than any other typical piece of Microsxxx junk? Is it any less vulnerable to attack ? Does it too insist on acting as a flippin server or refuse to run if you firewall incoming connections to it, just like dos/win counterpart? How does it handle java? Java is the only reason I never got it to run "properly" with wine, but the reason I even tried that has long since been fixed. One question I don't have though, I know it'd run faster.










And what does IE being available for *nix and solaris tell you? Tells me Microsxxx wants to do the same thing to *nix that it did to every one of it's undeserving customers, which is to stick their money grubbing hooks in our pockets. NEVER I SAY! NEVER! Microsxxx has never done anything it didn't see a profit in. Then again, maybe I slept in that day and missed something.























Gee, you think somebody's gonna get the impression I don't care for WinDoze or Micrscrew in general?? :mad: Naw...






























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