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Linux Browser for PM

by rir (Vicar)
on Sep 18, 2002 at 03:18 UTC ( [id://198716]=monkdiscuss: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

I used the browser links today to answer a SoPW. Tonight I noticed
out that when I pass through the Gates I get logged out.

I've been using an older Mozilla on Debian 2.2 (potato) this has the problem that
the posts often run over the nodelets. And that the nodelets
often run off the window to the right.

As I am soon going to Debian 3.0 (woody) I am seeking recommendations for
solid browsers, text and X, for use here on PM.

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Re: Linux Browser for PM
by blokhead (Monsignor) on Sep 18, 2002 at 05:01 UTC
    I use Galeon 1.2.5, a Mozilla-based Gnome web browser with excellent tab support, on Debian unstable with no problems. I'm not sure what you mean by posts running over the nodelets, but I have not seen anything I would describe in that way. What Mozilla version are you using? Anyway, Galeon is really worth a good look, and it's the application I miss most when I'm forced to use Windows. I've not had much experience with other Linux browsers to comment more.

    The only problem I have at PM is that sometimes when selecting text in the nested replies, the selected text gets really mangled in places (so that it ceases to become text, just a noisy rectangle), but a quick rescrolling up & down fixes it. I've not seen this happen on any other site than PM. Any other Mozilla/Galeon users know what I'm talking about?

    blokhead

      Agreed Galeon is a very nice browser. Although I like the developer support that Mozilla has (such as the DOM viewer and the view selection source)

      I also have this problem of random noise, again only on Perlmonks and only with replies. I also find that sometimes when I vote on nodes, the radio buttons turn into black blobs. Again if I scroll it *usually* disappears. If it makes any difference I'm using the Jblue theme

      Next time it happens I'll copy the page and try and find out whats wrong

      Simon
Re: Linux Browser for PM
by samtregar (Abbot) on Sep 18, 2002 at 04:56 UTC
    Mozilla 1.1 works well for reading PerlMonks on my Redhat Linux 7.2 system. What version did you have problems with?

    -sam

Re: Linux Browser for PM
by bart (Canon) on Sep 18, 2002 at 11:01 UTC
    I used the browser links today to answer a SoPW. Tonight I noticed out that when I pass through the Gates I get logged out.
    Are you sure this doesn't accidently make you go to another domain? Both www.perlmonks.org and www.perlmonks.com resolve to the same IP address, but obviously the browser cookies that keep you "logged in" don't follow you when going from one domain name to the other, as they're supposed to remain limited to a single domain. So you "log out".

      I had a similar problem when I first started using PM. I seem to recall that I was visiting the site as "perlmonks.org" (without the "www"). Visiting the site as "www.permonks.org" solved the problem, if I remember right. (This is IE 6 on Win 98.)

      Wally Hartshorn
Re: Linux Browser for PM
by jepri (Parson) on Sep 18, 2002 at 05:19 UTC
    Lynx works fine, and the more popular graphical browsers that are packaged in debian woody also work great. I'm writing this from a debian woody box right now, so I'm sure of it.

    ____________________
    Jeremy
    I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

Re: Linux Browser for PM
by Chady (Priest) on Sep 18, 2002 at 08:08 UTC

    I recently switched over from windows to linux, so I'm still very graphically oriented, so I use KDE3.0's Konqueror wich works just fine with CSS support and all.


    He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

    Chady | http://chady.net/
Re: Linux Browser for PM
by Gordy (Scribe) on Sep 18, 2002 at 09:23 UTC
    Opera works well for me, I can't think of any problems that I've had using it here on PM or anywhere else for that matter. It does however have an advertisement banner on the unregistered version.
Re: Linux Browser for PM
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 18, 2002 at 17:57 UTC

    I use Mozilla 1.0 RC2 on Linux without any real problems. It occasionally draws one scanline too few here or there resulting in slightly squashed-looking text, but that's rarely irritating and if so, scrolling or selecting cures it. It has nothing to do with any specific site either (occasionally it even happens to the "personal toolbar").

    Besides this minor hiccup, it's a perfectly fine browser.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

Re: Linux Browser for PM
by jsprat (Curate) on Sep 18, 2002 at 20:07 UTC
    For text-mode, try elinks, an "enhanced links". Vanilla links doesn't seem to have very good cookie management IMO, and elinks corrects that. Either one is much better (for browsing, at least) than lynx, which has no support for tables. elinks works pretty well as far as I can tell.

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