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Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "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.

Perhaps try firefox 4 (beta)? It is much faster, probably on par with chrome 
now, and it looks a bit cleaner designed.

You can download Opera for free btw.