Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Lobster · Posted: Sun 25 Dec 2005, 23:12 Post subject:

Rarsa do you feel that Firefox would be better than Opera for Puppy or do you feel a closed source browser is worth pursuing? Opera has been around awhile - the very early versions were pretty dire. Now I believe it is best suited to phones and is always available - but the choices for Puppy are:

Mozilla (boo! Dinosaur)
Firefox (my open source hero)
Opera (Grafpup default)

What do others say?

MU · Posted: Sun 25 Dec 2005, 23:23 Post subject:

On my system Opera is faster in rendering the pages, but it has problems, too.
It caches pages by default (ok, you might deactivate that).
It also "hangs" on several sites, seems to be a Javascript-issue.
While it tries to load it, no other pge can be accessed.

I like that it remembers all open tabs, so i use it by default, and switch to mozilla, if pages block or don't load.
As mozilla works more reliable for me, I would think it should stay the "default"-browser (but did not try Firefox 1.5 yet).

Mark
Ps. Lobster, today I met a german friend that lives in london since 3 years now.
Was very interesting to talk about german / british mentality.
Maybe I can visit him this year, depends on my income.

Lobster · Posted: Sun 25 Dec 2005, 23:58 Post subject:

MU · Posted: Mon 26 Dec 2005, 00:13 Post subject:

A difference is the typical british understatement, that I really like when reading your posts (I often grin then).

I asked him, if this "lobster"-way really is typical, he said "yes".

In his bureau (he is architect), he often sais: "this is shit what we do here".
He says, a british just would say that after the second pint (and forget it after the third one).

I found it quite funny, that he sees it as I do (well of course generalizing is always dangerous, but we just talk about "nuances").

Another thing:
British newspapers (SUN?) sometimes write about the "nazi"-germans, what makes us really upset and angry.
He now explained me, that they have a different understanding.
While a (modern) german thinks of millions of killed jews and feels lot of pain for that (we hate our forefathers for that), british think of "tactical" nation-stuff. They might have problems to accept, that germany had become (beside france) the new european industrial leader, although it had lost the war.
So the word "nazi" for a british implies something different than for a german.
Knowing this, I can be less angry on such statements (but still grumbling).

I really prefer working together so nice as we do nowadays instead of beeing enemies like our forefathers Smile

Greets, Mark (now going asleep).

rarsa · Posted: Mon 26 Dec 2005, 02:03 Post subject:

Lobster · Posted: Mon 26 Dec 2005, 05:54 Post subject:

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