[plug] So what are the alternatives apart from Netscape.

[Michael Hunt]

I liked the KDE browser to but fell into a similar trap where KDE (and to
some extent the browser to) did not support all that I wanted (No proxies
can be set-up in the KDE browser which I think is a big bummer as the
network only allows http request through the proxy).

It does seem that Microsoft dominance in the market has caused a stifling of
innovation rather than promoting it. I know as someone who does ISP tech
support that it is almost natural to say to someone who is having problem
"go into IE". 99% of the time they are running IE and you sort of get a rude
shock that they might be running Netscape.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of John Summerfield
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 2:21 PM
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] So what are the alternatives apart from Netscape.
>
>
> > Leon,
> >
> > So if I want:
> >
> > 1. A decent browser that can support frames, tables, Java,
> graphics etc. (Ok
> > Lynx has a place but not for this purpose)
> > 2. Doesn't take up whole chunks of memory (23 meg on my 96 meg "server"
> > machine at home)
> > 3. Doesn't crash all the time (Though cleaning up a core dump
> is easier than
> > having to do a reboot)
> >
> > What are the alternatives.
>
> The kde desktop browses html from faraway locations; I've only used it
> briefly (I mostly use gnome as kde simply cannot run exmh so it's
> just not
> an option).
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> John Summerfield
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