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Anyone using Mozilla 1.0 on Linux?? You like it better than Konquerer?

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On my RedHat 7.3 box I've been using Konquerer. I like it, but notice that certian things like using the Anandtech search function don't seem to display correctly.

RedHat came bundled with Mozilla 0.9.9 (which I haven't used yet), but since 1.0 is available, I figured I might try it out.

Any feedback before I do so??

 
"Running" is a relative term I suppose.

I have it installed, but Im not using it, it's slow beyond usefulness on my Dual P2-350, and even on my AXP 1.54 GHz it's not very fast.

Im using Opera 6.01 fulltime, when Konqueror 3.1 shows up with tabbed browsing, I'll give it a shot.
That is, assuming KDE 3.x ever shows up in Debian.
 
it has a gui installer, takes probably less than a minute to install, what do you have to lose?

IMO its better than konqeror but probably slower (this problem is exacerbated on an older/slower system).

but it's the most standards compliant browser available, and a marvel of the open source community! you must install it! 😀

btw, the pinball theme is great.
 
I can't see how people can use anything other than Opera. Mouse gestures are the most usefull thing a Web Browser ever offered.
 
I've been using Mozilla on Linux nearly full time since about 0.9.4; it's been particularly stable and well behaved for several milestone releases now. The load time is a bit slow, and the memory footprint grows a bit much, but it's otherwise been an excellent browser for me. I've tried Konq only sparingly, and never really liked it (I've yet to switch to KDE3 as my default desktop anyway).
 
I've got it installed because I have two other Moz based browsers that need it. Galeon and Skipstone to be exact. Neither of these two have the memory footprint of full blown Moz because they only use the gecko rendering engine in Moz. Both are exceptionally quick.
 
Netscape 6.2 has a Linux version, and it's built on Mozilla architecture/technology (Gecko Engine) not knocking Konqueror or Opera, just givin another alternative
 
Originally posted by: Tiger
I've got it installed because I have two other Moz based browsers that need it. Galeon and Skipstone to be exact. Neither of these two have the memory footprint of full blown Moz because they only use the gecko rendering engine in Moz. Both are exceptionally quick.
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i've run mozilla, galeon, and skipstone, on both a duron 750 and a p233. it's all been slow. obviously things on the p233 are going to be slow, but even galeon or skipstone on the 750 were slow. gecko is slow.
 
Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode
If you want a fast browser install Opera. I use Mozilla 1.0, it might be slower, but I get more out of it...
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i agree. i think i'm a masochist, i use mozilla on a fricken p233 😛
 
Thanks for the replies. I'll try it out.

This is a slow machine anyway. PPro 200 server grade HP Vectra. It will soon be a dual PPro 200, so hopefully that will help a bit...

In fact I need to start a new thread about taking this from single to dual in linux.....
 
1. I run Mozilla on an LFS 3.3-based system and it works beautifuly.
2. I like Konqueror, but it seems to have trouble with more pages than Mozilla.
3. I've never tried Opera, so no comment about it from me.
4. There is a mouse gesture addon for Mozilla. Check mozdev.org.
5. The only thing I don't like about Mozilla on Linux is that it doesn't cooperate with the X clipboard very well. I can copy text out of Mozilla and paste in anything, but not vice versa. I'm going to see if there's a bugzilla entry for this annoyance later today.
6. If you don't like Mozilla's memory footprint, compile it yourself, and disable everything you don't want. Composer, Mail, Chatzilla, and even Navigator can be excluded from the build to reduce memory usage.
 
I use Galeon on a PII-400 at work and the only thing that's noticably slow is creation/deltion of tabs when there's a few of them (say over 5).
 
Compiled it for Linux on Sparc, and it runs well. Submitted it to mozilla to for those of you that are really into causing yourself pain (linux on sparc that is...)

BTW, I'm using a USII-300 with 512MB RAM I think. It's faster to run than my p3-600 laptop, it it was still faster on my p2-233 running redhat 7.2... maybe it's windows, eh?

BTW, as far as I've used it, there's no problems with the X clipboard, except that if you are like me and copy stuff over as a url, you tend to highlight the whole address before deleting, it gets kind of annoying... :'(
 
I am sure most of people know about this, but...

On Linux:

1. To copy text from Mozilla - select it (not need to go to menu or press anything on keyboard)

2. To copy text (NOT url!) to mozilla - put cursor to text area and click middle button. If you don't have middle button - press left and right buttons simultaneosly (if you configured emulation of 3rd button)

3. To copy URL to Mozilla - click middle button anywhere on page outside of text boxes. Mozilla will understand that you aren't trying to paste text but open web page and wiill open url you copied.

p.s. Don't forget to install plug-ins !!!

p.p.s Mozilla is the best browser. Linux is the best OS.
 
Originally posted by: marat


p.p.s Mozilla is the best browser. Linux is the best OS.
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That's an objective comment, right?

Anyways, I've never had a problem pasting to and from Mozilla. The only app I've ever had difficulty with was gaim. I cleared that up though.

 
Two more things I like most:

1. Preferences->Advanced->Scripts and Windows
No to opening unwanted windows (kick ass!)
No to Resizing
No to raising or lowering windows
=> No popups


2. Right click on banner -> Block images from this server

🙂

 
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