From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-23T05:58:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Editor

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:18:25AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 03:35:26PM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> >> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >>> Firefox, alas, is the best of a tremendously bad breed.  I wish there was
> >>> something better out there, and I've toyed with the idea of creating a
> >>> GUI web browser of my own just so I won't have to suffer with what's
> >>> currently available, but it's going to have to wait on me having more
> >>> free time.  Lots more.
> >> Well ... I switched to Seamonkey. Pretty much all the Linux browsers use
> >> the same Gecko rendering engine and have a similar look and feel. If you
> >> can stand KDE, Konqueror is probably as good as Firefox now.
> > 
> > I find the interface for Konqueror kludgey and annoying, to say nothing
> > of the fact that I pretty much *can't* stand KDE.
> Likewise ... that's why I bought Komodo.
> 
> > I haven't given
> > Seamonkey a try -- but I do know that I found its predecessor, the
> > Mozilla suite, thoroughly aggravating.  I hear things have improved at
> > least a little, though.
> Seamonkey is pretty much equivalent to Thunderbird as an email client,
> and a tad less than Firefox as a browser. The only thing I know that it
> *won't* do is RSS feeds -- for that you need Firefox. I don't use the
> composer and I have better IRC clients, but "Chatzilla" is usable as an
> IRC client.

That's really my biggest problem with something like Seamonkey -- most of
it, I wouldn't use.  I have mutt, irssi, and Google Reader for things
like email, IRC, and feed aggregation.  All I need out of my browser is a
browser.

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