Subject: Re: 64-bit clean web browser (sort of)
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: segv <segv@netctl.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/21/2005 08:50:55
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:06:00 -0400
Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> > After several hours of building www/galeon web browser, I was
> > surprised how good it was. It's standards compliant and seems to be
> > a lot more stable than Firefox. It's a shame I didn't try it out
> > ages ago :-)
> 
> Hmm, last time I tried no browser that uses embedded mozilla would
> work
> - I guess I'll give it another try then. Konqueror is pretty stable
> and not nearly as sluggish as one would probably expect but the cookie
> manager doesn't work so its use is somewhat limited.
> 
> have fun
> Michael
> 

Well Galeon is not perfect, i.e. it does crash from time to time, but
it seems to have a lot less problems than Firefox. One nice feature
Galeon has is when it crashes it says "Application quit unexpectedly"
and then it asks you if you would like to restart your session. This is
quite good if you have many tabs open and are in the middle of browsing
some web pages. The browser will quit and then restart, and
automatically take you back to the pages you were browsing last time.

Another thing I like about it is clicking on a web page with a middle
button will display a small circle with arrows up/down etc, by
moving your mouse the page will scroll up/down. This is great if you
don't have a wheel mouse.