non-gecko-based browser ??? Are there any for FC1 ????

[Daniel Stonier]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:44:22 -0400 (EDT), Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 
<jtwdyp at ttlc.net> wrote:

> Hello. I primarily use firefox and mozilla as my browser(s) of choice.
> But when I took an html class last year I learned that many web pages
> use browser specific features. And that other browsers may not render
> them properly. So I was taught that it was a good idea to keep more
> than one browser around in case you wanted to use a page that wasn't
> compatible with your favorite, (and to view any page I might make with
> as many "DIFFERENT" browsers as possible before deciding they worked
> properly.)
>
> Well I recently found a product I wanted to order on-line. But neither
> Firefox, nor it's cousin Mozilla was able to actually add the product to
> the "shopping cart" This got me looking at browsers again. But everything
>  I got on this fc1 (including konqueror) seams to be based on mozilla.
>
> I'm looking for something else. Not for regular use, but so that when I
> send a request to some webmaster to make his/her page more compatible
> with my software, I want to be able to show that I tried more than one
> kind of browser before I decided it was the website, rather than my
> chosen software that's at fault. But I simply won't boot windows to test
> it with IE (Generaly I disable the cable modem before I boot windows
> one any of the rare occasions that I even go there any more.)
>
> Are there any functional browsers for fc1 that don't use mozilla's
> rendering engine? (preferably one that can render pages written for IE)
>
>

Try Opera - it's the browser I use by default now and one of the older
browsers around and not based on the gecko engine. Despite that it's
probably just as innovative if not more so than moz.

http://www.opera.com

It's not open source, but you can download the full version for free
if you dont mind putting up with the ad banner in the top corner.

Regards,
Daniel Stonier.



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