[ale] browser recc's?

[rbutera at ece.gatech.edu (Rob Butera)]

Hi folks.

Is it just me, or have recent versions of Netscape been hanging up
a lot more than they used to.  It seems that both 4.5 and 4.61 lock
up on a regular basis, even on pages without Java Applets (and even
more on the pages that do have them).  I have been running on 2.2.5
and 2.2.10 kernels, on a system that is (mostly) SUSE 6.1.

Can anyone reccomend another browser (maybe a Mozilla derivative)
that is more stable?  If it matters at all, I am running the 128-bit
encryption version.

For whatever it is worth, my wife works under NT all day and also has
noticed more problems with the latest versions of Netscape (as compared to
IE), to the point that she no longer uses Netscape.

Last time I looked at "other" browsers (2+ years ago), nothing really
came close to NS and IE.   I suspect that things have changed, especially
with the opening of the Mozilla source -- any reccomendations?


Robert Butera, Assistant Professor       
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering		
Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 
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