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  From: Andrew Williss <bigwill@riverland.net.au>
  To  : David Fitch <davidf@parachilna.com>
  Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:31:17 +0930

Re: PCs for kids (Geelong)

7/30/01 4:17:31 PM, David Fitch <davidf@parachilna.com> wrote:

>not really, having recently tried netscape 4.78, opera (5.0?), mozilla
>(0.9.2) (all on same machine, under RH 6.2) and IE 5.5 (same machine,
>under vmware/nt) IE and netscape load pages in about the same time
>(unfortunately mozilla is noticeably slower) but IE fonts are much nicer
>and more pages work better in IE than netscape.
>
>I looked at konquerer but it wants kde libs and I'm running gnome so
>I didn't bother.
>
>I was really hoping mozilla would be a nice lean fast browser (without
>mail/news reader etc) but it's worse than netscape.  It's better (but
>more hassle) to run IE in vmware than anything else.
>
>Dave.
>

I have been using Opera 5 for Linux and find it very good although I don't think it supports Java.
I find it as fast as it's windows equivelant ( Opera 5.12)
The windows version has an in-built email client ala Netscape.
Netscape is Bloatware these days and the linux version was always crashing on me so I went to Opera.
Konquerer is also very good but I can't get ANZ Internet  Banking to work with it...

Cheers!
Andrew Williss - VK5LA
Berri, South Australia 


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