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[Nick Sabalausky]

"Stephan Soller" <stephan.soller at helionweb.de> wrote in message 
news:i8sh5u$2ijp$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 07.10.2010 23:59, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Stephan Soller"<stephan.soller at helionweb.de>  wrote in message
>> news:i8kmuc$15t$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> On 07.10.2010 14:56, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> "Stephan Soller"<stephan.soller at helionweb.de>   wrote in message
>>>> news:i8k8k9$230n$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]: http://arkanis.de/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not to complain, just FYI, this is what that page looks like for me:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.semitwist.com/download/arkanis1.png
>>>> http://www.semitwist.com/download/arkanis2.png
>>>> http://www.semitwist.com/download/arkanis3.png
>>>>
>>>> Interestingly, if I turn JS on, than it'll look a lot better *until* it
>>>> finishes loading, at which point it goes back to looking just like 
>>>> those
>>>> screenshots.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the screenshots. May I ask which version of Firefox (if I see
>>> that correctly) your're using
>>
>> v2.0.0.20
>>
>> Which actually kinda surprises me because I could have sworn I was on a 
>> much
>> later version of the 2.x line. I *know* there was a period where it kept
>> updating itself seemingly all the time (which got quite irritating when I
>> just wanted to go to a particular URL). But I guess that must have been 
>> the
>> only 2.x version I was able to find after giving up on FF3. And IIRC, the
>> built-in update won't let me update to anything less than FF3.
>>
>> And yea, I know FF2 is really old, but I tried 3.0 and 3.5 and the JS was
>> only marginally faster, it doesn't seem to fix any of the rendering bugs
>> I've come across in FF2 (I have 3.5 on my Linux box, just for site 
>> testing),
>> and every other change they made I hated and downloaded extentions to
>> undo...until I realized there was no extention to un-unify the unified
>> forward/back buttons (which I had thought was a good idea when IE7 came
>> out -- until I actually used IE7), and realized the only winestripe-like
>> things for FF3 weren't nearly as good as the real winestripe. So I 
>> figured
>> "Why bog it down with even *more* addons just to turn it into a 
>> half-baked
>> FF2, when I can just use the real FF2?" YouTube bitches to me about it, 
>> but
>> well, fuck YouTube; never liked having over-compressed videos 
>> pre-embedded
>> into a web-based player anyway.
>>
>
> Maybe you should consider looking into some other browsers? Opera, Chrome 
> and other Gecko based browsers might give you a better experience that the 
> newer Firefox versions. This is the reason why there are different 
> browsers after all.
>

- Safari is ruled out because it's a blurry mess (all for the sake of making 
it look more like the printed version? WTF?) and forces useless background 
processes, has zero respect for my system's look-and-feel, and has no 
"Adblock Plus", "NoScript", or "BetterPrivacy" (Three FF add-ons that 
provide functionality that, for me, are absolutely 100% essential).

- IE7+ is out because it has no "Adblock Plus", "NoScript", or 
"BetterPrivacy", and I don't like the unified forward/back buttons.

- Iron is out because I *hate* absolutely everything about it's UI, and it 
doesn't have "NoScript" (I've heard it has "AdBlock Plus", but I didn't see 
it when I first looked so I don't know). Also, configurability seems to be 
practically non-existent compared to FF.

- Chrome is out because of all the reasons for which Iron was created in the 
first place. I won't even allow Chrome (or Safari) on my computer at all.

- Opera is ruled out because it costs money and every time I tried the demos 
it seemed to combine the worst aspects of all the other browsers, plus had 
by far the most rendering problems.

- And everything else like IE6-, Netscape, WebTV, Lynx, etc are all ruled 
out for obvious reasons.