* omicron@pes.edu <omicron@pes.edu>:
I have lotsa probz with netscape. [...] I'm fed up with it and i wanna know if there is a good alternative browser
If you must turn from your friend so fast... here are some Good Alternative Browsers: 1) w3m -- you have to like text, but it's the best text-based web browser IMHO. (I use both this and Netscape) 2) links -- another good text-based browser. (both call in another program (like zgv, or XV) to display images) 3) Konqueror (kfm) from KDE -- I've only used the version on 6.2 (which had some annoying problems), and it was a nice lightweight browser with a clean interface. Something to look at in the future. 4) Mozilla -- supposedly getting really good. Last I checked it was too memory intensive for my computer. (I don't have enought hard disk space to compile my own either) If you try them and want to use Netscape again, here is a bit of fairly useless advice on how to make it play nice: 1) Disable Java! 2) Now disable javascript. 2) Get Junkbuster. (less bandwidth and image rendering) 3) Get a chaching proxy and turn off the disk caching in Netscape. (Examples are Squid and WWWOFFLE) 4) Download the Netscape without mail and news (there are much better mail and news clients IMNSHO, like mutt and slrn). This seems to be what helped me the most. (it is much smaller in size -- less things to break) You could also customize Netscape a bit. With this small python script, I make the 'search' button go to www.google.com (Google actually explained how to do this on their site), and I get rid of the stupid 'shopping' button: #!/usr/bin/env python import os home = os.environ['HOME'] prefs = open(home+'/.netscape/preferences.js', 'a') prefs.write("config(\"internal_url.net_search.url\",\ \"http://www.google.com\");") # get rid of stupid shopping button prefs.write("user_pref(\"browser.chrome.disableMyShopping\", true);") prefs.flush() prefs.close() os.system('/opt/netscape/netscape &') # see: about:config for useful info # see: http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/deploymt/jsprefs.htm david. -- Who knows if the sky filled with pretty people? -- e.e.cummings in a blender -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/