skipstone

[Ken Moffat]

Collins wrote:

>On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 09:26:15 -0700 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com>
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>>Collins wrote:
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>>>A user on the xfce group pointed out this browser as an alternative
>>>to galeon.  Like galeon, it uses the mozilla/gecko engine, but it
>>>doesn't require gnome.  As a result it requires about 25% less
>>>memory resources.  It does provide good tabbed window support. 
>>>It's a little slower at page rendering than galeon, however.  It
>>>also appears to be a moving target, i.e. under heavy development.
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>>>Enjoy,
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>>Interesting. Although i like galeon, skipstone appears to work, and
>>work quite well. Since it uses the mozilla engine, I assume it
>>handles frames and other features like mozilla (quite well). Have
>>you found disfunctional features you'd expect to work?
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>No, but then I haven't tried anything that requires plugins, for
>example.  I dno't keep any such sites bookmarked, so if you have any
>urls you are curious about, send them to me.
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It appears to set up helper apps just like mozilla. (tried npr.org 
realaudio stream, and the same mozilla dialog appears)