CHAT: browsers

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Well, an advantage of having Linux is the proliferation of web browsers there.
> I don't have that much choice :(( .
Actually, there is also Phoenix (for Windows and Linux) and K-Meleon (for
Windows only).  Both are Mozilla-technology, but considerably faster and
cleaner.  Phoenix is XUL-based and builds right on top of current Mozilla
code (it's not a branch), smaller, faster, more features than Moz.
(Of course, it's a browser, not a suite, which helps.)  Phoenix development
has been fairly rapid but is now moving into hibernation for a while.

K-Meleon is not XUL-based, but uses native widgets exclusively, but still
with Gecko layout.  It does appear to be a branch -- it uses "layers"
instead of tabs, but the effect is the same, only the visual metaphor
differs.

I'm using both of them (on different machines, to avoid terminal confusion),
trying to decide which I like best.  So far, neck and neck, although I havce
more experience with Phoenix.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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