[geeks] New Moz 0.9.9

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Apr 2 23:40:35 CST 2002


On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:47:20PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Monday, April 1, 2002 at 21:49:52 (-0500), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> > Subject: [geeks] New Moz 0.9.9
> >
> > I just installed this on my Linux workstation, and it is tremendously faster
> > than 0.9.8.  I mean, I might stop telling people mozilla is slow this is so
> > much faster at page loads, opening new windows, redraws, etc.
> 
> If you think the new Mozilla is faster, you should try the new Galeon!
> It's got a lot less baggage than Mozilla (though it uses the same HTML
> rendering code inside), and it's footprint on the system is a lot smaller.
> 
> > And I love the tabs.
> 
> If you like Mozilla's tabs you'll really love Galeon's.....  The whole
> Galeon UI is much improved over the default Mozilla one.
> 
> 	http://galeon.sourceforge.net/
> 
> (you need the mozilla 0.9.9 sources to build galeon 1.2.0, but there are
> RH and Slackware (i386-only) builds ready done for you linux users)

I've installed from source much of the software on my system, but I haven't 
done so for Mozilla.  One of these days I will get around to getting the pieces
together to compile Galeon though.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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