Subject: Re: 64-bit clean web browser (sort of)
To: segv <segv@netctl.net>
From: Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/21/2005 10:16:20
On the last episode (Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:50:55 +0100), segv
<segv@netctl.net> said:

> 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. 

2 cents note : firefox does this too here :)