M18 Looking pretty good was Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Debian....

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:29:30 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Richard Cobbe <cobbe at directlink.net>  said:
> Lo, on Friday, October 13, Chris Cox did write:
> 
> > Richard Cobbe wrote:
> > > 
> > ... snip...
> > > 
> > > Maybe in a year or so when Mozilla is Ready For Prime-Time (TM).
> > > 
> > 
> > Downloaded M18 yesterday.... looking pretty good... still kinda on the larg
e
> > size though....  oh well.  My guess is that since several distributions
> > (including my preferred SuSE) will use the KDE 2.0 desktop, I may just
> > end up using Konqueror (kinda like how Windows folks just use IE).
> 
> Apologies for the lag; I let my mailbox back up.
> 
> Granted, I haven't tried mozilla since M14 or so, but I was pretty
> underwhelmed.  

There have indeed been pretty major changes since then.  I think I tried
out several versions around the M11-M14 version ranges, and was not
particularly impressed.

M16 was quite a bit better behaved; I presently have M17 installed,
and am seeing pretty decent results with it.

If you can afford the download size, I'd say to give M18 a shot; if it
is better than M17, then that should be starting to get moderately
decent.

What I'm _really_ looking forward to is to see the "Just Web" version,
Galeon, get stable enough to be readily deployable in binary form.  That
should be quite a lot smaller and quicker.
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