Message-ID: <3A250030.B93401BB@skynet.be>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:10:09 +0100
From: fx Fraipont
After trying Netscape 6, Opera and Konqueror on some difficult
Web
pages I arrive at the conclusion that at present time there is no acceptable browser program for linux users.
Maybe the problem is not so much how the pages display (though Nestape 6 displays pages a lot better than 4.7x), but rather how stable the browser is. I have been mostly microsoft free for about two years now, but I still need the occasional windows 98 trip for my home banking program (1). Interestingly enough, when I contacted my Belgian bank to use their Netbanking services instead of the windows homebanking software. I was told it would not work in Linux . I tried all the same: the process is this: you initiate a secure connection to their site, then you hace to download a 220k java program each time, insert a few passwords and codes, and you can go banking. Problem is, it is painfully slow, even on isdn, and Netscape freezes fairly regularly. So I was looking forward to testing Konqueror and Netscape 6. Well, both Konqueror and Netscape 6 freeze every time, and so are no help. So I guess I agree with the post that said that the linux browsing experience was still pretty miserable. Fx 1.not to mention OCR and accessing content CD's like encyclopedias. -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux Kernel 2.2.17 (who Kares?)