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pres589 · NewBe Gender: Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 1

The topic says it all, what's the best web browser for BeOS? IMO, BeOS web browsers are not that hot, I'm running the latest Stripzilla (downloaded the binary, didn't build from source) and it's not that impressive, still feels like there is lag between what I input on the keyboard or mouse and what results on the screen, etc. Net+, while fast at text rendering, is terrible for anything else really. Opera 3.6x isn't too bad but old, I'd pay for it if it was more current but the thing is ancient as far as browsers go. I don't have a version of Wagner that is 5.1 friendly (yes, I'm running Dano on my box). For system specs, I'm running a Celeron 666, 192mb of SDRam, and I've got a VooDoo 3 2000 AGP for my video card, which is plenty of hardware to push Konqueror in Red Hat 7.3 (yes, I dual boot) or IE 6 when I ran windows XP on that box.

mariux · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 9:56 am Post subject:

I use Net+ most of the time, and mozilla when i need to use it
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cj171 · Pencil Pusher Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 17 Location: USA

I like using Net+ but only on certain sites, cuz a lot dont get rendered properly... I use mozilla a lot cuz it may be slow, but its reliable and always renders them pages right. Opera seriously sucks...it crashes all the time for me so i dont use it...just my 2 cents...
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Wombat · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:05 pm Post subject:

I use StripZilla all the time on BeOS - I'm on a 2Ghz machine with 256meg of RAM so even Mozilla doesn't seem so bloated and lagging

Now, I'm not a porgrammer, but, I am wondering why nobody has taken the Gecko engine from Mozilla and put it into a native BeOS interface? I mean Gecko must have already been ported to BeOS for Mozilla to run, so is there any technical reason why this is difficult?

If that could be done, then we'd have one kick-ass browser. At least that's how I see it anyway.

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Frans van Nispen · Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 8:16 am Post subject: Opera

I would also pay for an updated version of opera. But with the few left willing to pay, I do not think they will ever come back.

Unfortunately, all versions of Mozilla I tried so far, crash every minute.
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cj171 · Pencil Pusher Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 17 Location: USA

if someone ported the ad-sponsored version of opera 5 or 6, I would be happy.
-CJ