h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

One of them has to be Safari. Did i guess right, MaW?

can anyone comment on opera and mozilla for a mac?

also how much ram do they use? (i don't use netscape very often cos it guzzles ram)

(i'm not following some of this thread as my mouse has only one button)

Why not use Apple's own browser?
http://www.apple.com/safari

Nah, not Safari, I don't have a Mac. Galeon and Konqueror - the former uses Mozilla's rendering engine and is my primary browser, the latter is the project which the engine used in Safari was developed for, and is also very cool. Between them they can handle just about anything, although I prefer Galeon's UI.

Both, however, will generally only be found running on UNIX-like systems.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned lynx yet

not to mention the whole host of different browsers mentioned on my website at http://www.xyroth-enterprises.co.uk/wbrowser.htm

if anyone knows of any others, and their websites, let me know.

I don't see safari, galeon, or konqueror on your list, xyroth.

Ah, you do have Galeon... just the others then.

safari and phoenix now on the offline copy, but I generally have a problem with kde due to having to trawl their site to find the information.

Konqueror now added as well. it's at http://www.konqueror.org/

They are now all on the off-line copy of the page, which as I am expecting to publish the next issue of the site in the next day or two, will be online presently.

any others I don't know about?

Well on the version of the page that's up there, Galeon is misspelled - it's also just 'Galeon' not 'Gnome Galeon'. It is a browser for GNOME, but GNOME doesn't feature in the name.

You also didn't mention w3m or Chimera - the former is a very impressive text-based browser, like Lynx but better. The latter is a Mac OS X native browser using Gecko - something like Galeon or Epiphany, but for Mac OS X using Aqua stuff.

Epiphany, by the way, is a new Galeon-like browser which aims to present a far more simple interface than Galeon. They say it's bloated, but as far as I can see Galeon's just about perfect.

OKOKOK for 26199, the addy for Avant Browser is, not surprisingly, www.avantbrowser.com.

TUUUYSCS,
Deuce

"Why not use Apple's own browser?"

safari is for OSX only. lots of mac users are still on OS9.

You're right. OS X 10.2, no less...

i tried out opera today. looks very nice and seemed to load fast. but the scroll down was jerky and seemed slower than I.E.

when i tried to log on to h2g2 the after log on link would always take me back to the log in page saying i coudn't post until i logged in (even though i just had). groundhog day. i gave up after that. might try again tomorrow.

i was on a mac version of opera 6. the mac opera forum seemed spectacularly unimpressed with v.6.

What you describe sounds similar to using the Psion browser, its all to do with bad cooky acceptance, why not go to the Feedback-Technical and ask there, as that shouldn't be happening in a popular (non MS) browser.

CH

Doh, I thought that would be a link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/Feedback-Technical

CH

xyroth, you might like to mention Off By One http://www.OffByOne.com

I've been using Opera 6.05 but I've seen adverse comments about v7 so haven't gone for it yet, being a bit wary of so-called 'upgrades'. Is it good, or are there problems with it?

I tried 7.0 when it was released as 'final' but found it a bit buggy - some of the horizontal lines which seperate the posts in Goo with frames didn't appear until I... until I 'shook' the page up and down with the scroll bar . I'd often have to click twice on scroll bars and buttons to make them work, and the mail client is a complete nightmare, so I went back to 6.05.

Then the Java in my 6.05 stopped working even after a few reinstalls, and opera announced 7.02, so I downloaded it again yesterday. Still getting the same problems with the HRs and the clicking, and it seems a little slower than 6.05 (funny - 7.0 seemed a good bit quicker). The Java is still not working too, but I'm going to persevere, and hope that they make my favourite skin and buttons for 7 soon

Thanks, Gosho, I think I'll just let you carry on as guinea pig for now . Did you install 7 alongside 6.05 rather than over it, so it was easy to get back, or is there a 'downgrade' path?