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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> Well, if it's not firefox's fault, switching to a new browser may not help. |
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It does help, I tried before posting. I already had Opera and Konqueror |
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installed. (It's just that I thought it would be better to hear about |
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your experiences before starting doing heavy customizations.) |
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>> So, the point is: what browser now? |
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> I use Konqueror near exclusively; Bon Echo (non-Mozilla-branded Firefox |
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> 2.x) is reserved for site whose javascript is not supported in Konqueror. |
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> It (Konqueror) even has the ability to use 32-bit plugins in a 64-bit |
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> browser. If you use other kde application you'll enjoy the |
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> loosely-coupled but tight integration, like adding RSS feeds to aKregator |
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> from Konqueror. |
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> I was an avid Opera user before I switched to Linux. It's an integrated |
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May I ask what led you to change to Konqueror, given that Opera also was |
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available in Linux? |
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> browser along the lines of Mozilla or Seamonkey, containing (at least) a |
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> mail and new client in addition to the browser. IME, it was able to |
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> handle anything sort of ActiveX (that is, everything Firefox can), but |
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> occasionally you'd have to change your browser identification string to |
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> something more IE-like or FF-like to convince the webserver to give you |
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> the correct page. (Google for: opera oprah microsoft) I was a fan of |
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> their support newsgroup, it taught me a lot of little tips and tricks (ala |
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> Firefox's about:config stuff) that ended up making my browser experience |
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> uniquely mine. |
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Regards, |
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Jorge |
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