[Liverpool] Iceweasel

[Vladimir]

2009/9/5 Simon Johnson <simon.johnson at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>>
>> Iceweasel was mentioned at the last meeting and there seems to be a
>> continuing meme that the browser is somehow behind Firefox and was
>> branched off from on an old version (I shall mention no names as to
>> where this meme resides ;-)
>
>
> One of the things that really lets desktop Linux down is the browser
> experience.
>
what? Opera, Chrome and Firefox are far more superior browsers to MSIE.
superior in security, page rendering speeds, general usability, etc.

> It was so bad that I ditched my Debian install and went to Windows 7.
>
install debian, then apt-get install firefox. job done.
firefox is the fastest growing browser in the world.
is your bald statement suggesting that millions of lemmings are wrong (
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)



> The browser is probably the single most important application in a modern
> operating environment*. Yet Debian has just about the worst browser of any
> modern OE.
>

use firefox then.

>
> The Windows version of Firefox is much more stable and requires fewer
> megabytes of memory than the Linux version.
>

numbers, please!
they r not that significant.


> It uses less memory, it's faster, and has many features that are included
> as standard that would require extensions in Firefox.
>
what is wrong with using extensions?

>
>


>
> It's sad, because I enjoyed every *other* part of the Linux. But Linux
> without a half decent browser is practically useless.
>
calling Opera and Firefox (and soon, Chrome) *even not a half decent browser
* is at least stupid (no offence)


vladimir
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