[geeks] Browsers for Irix

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Feb 1 16:46:24 CST 2002


On February 1, James Sharp wrote:
> Anyone know of a decent (or semi-decent) web browser for Irix?  I'm
> getting tired of the one particular piece of javascript that completely
> confuses netscape all to hell.
> 
> Whatever it is, it leaves netscape in a state that you can't click on any
> link and if you do manage to open a new URL, the page is blank.  You have
> to end up closing all of your browser windows and kill -9ing the remaining
> netscape processes.
> 
> And no, I'm not going to run that aborted coredump known as Mozilla,
> either.

  Huh?  What's wrong with Mozilla?  I find it to be exceptionally
stable and generally very good under IRIX.  Just very, very slow.
I'm running the SGI-distributed Mozilla binaries, BTW.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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