Re: Galeon 1.2.5 to 1.3.19 conveersion a couple of questions

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:19:43PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 07:27:28PM -0500, stan ([email protected]) wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:02:00AM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > Care to identify any reasons to stay with a diffeernt (broken IMHO) version
> > of Galeon, rather than just use Firefox, if I have to relearn how to do
> > things, and lose useful functions?
> 
> I'll try to answer a few benefits.  I'm also a big fan of 1.2.x, and
> have ranted about some of the brokenness in 1.3.x.  It *is* getting
> markedly better, though it's been a long and painful trip.  I also
> object to the GNOME-centricness of Galeon.
> 

Thanks for the EXCELENT summary!

I guess I'll continue to evulate both on my new Debian machines, and make a
decision on which one to use as my primary browser after I get a bit more
experience with both.

At present the _major_ facotrs for em are:

For Firefox

1. Better integration with add ins

For Galeon

1. Better tab handling.

Thanks.


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