Browsers...

[J.E. Otero]

Opera 7.03 is pretty good about CSS except for stupid things like scrollbar 
colors and anything else that does not comply with standard CSS... How bad 
do we reallly need to see that pretty pink scrollbar?

On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 12:41:46 -0500 (EST), <numa at thenuma.com> wrote:

> If you had read my post, you will know that I was suggesting opera as a
> good browser for those sites that DO NOT render at all in
> Phoenix/Moz/Netscape.  Now, if your contention is that opera is a 
> "browser
> at your own risk" relative to phoenix, ok, sure.  But, if your contention
> is that IE is less of a "browser at your own risk",  that's just funny.
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> Kris
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>> If any of you follow bugtraq, you will know that opera has had a
>> terrible track record of security in its recent releases.  I have seen
>> exploits with win32 shellcode, but it would be trivial to port those
>> shellcodes to linux.  Also, since opera has been VERY sluggish to fix
>> these vulnerabilities, I would say you are using this browser at your
>> own risk.
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>> Kevin Hodle
>> CCNA, Network+, A+
>> Alexander Open Systems
>> Network Operations Center
>> (913)-307-2367
>> kevinh at aos5.com
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: numa at thenuma.com [mailto:numa at thenuma.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:06 AM
>> To: kclug at kclug.org
>> Subject: Browsers...
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>> I am noticing a lot of recommendations for browsers to use in Linux.  We
>> all have to first agree that netscape is, well, dated.  A lot of us use
>> Mozilla, however, according to the new roadmap, moz is dead.  Phoenix,
>> it appears, will supercede the old netscape core.  Great, Phoenix is a
>> rocket.  HOWEVER, IE, has become quite entrenched, and there are some
>> sites that really suck with phoenix/moz.
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>> You all might consider giving opera a spin once again, it is fast,
>> standards compliant, and, runs sites that are IE specific like a bat out
>> of hell.
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>> Just my thoughts.  Kris Bodenheimer
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