Re: Mozilla on OpenBSD 3.5 (i386)

[Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn_(_at_)_aei_(_dot_)_mpg_(_dot_)_de>]

In message <http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0412/msg00842.html>
I wrote (in answer to an earlier query):
> I'm running both mozilla and mozilla-firefox on 3.5-stable i386
> with no problems.  ((Well, actually, none besides that they're both
> huge, bloated, GUI-infested web browsers which don't seem to have
> any way to selectively block javascript popup ads, won't let me run
> multiple independent instances sharing the same profile, which die
> entirely if any of their [in practice popul-ad] windows are killed
> from a window manager, ignore X -geometry specifications when started,
> and provide the worst interface I've met in my life for typing text
> into forms, and are probably riddled with security holes.  But I
> digress...))

In message <http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0412/msg00862.html>
Jeffrey Lim <jfs_(_dot_)_world_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com> asked
# what would u recommend then, if any, as an alternative to these
# browsers? I'm interested to know what u would recommend.

Alas, I know of nothing better. :( :(

ciao,

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   Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut),
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