Micheas Herman

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When I started using Linux in 1996 I spent a lot of time looking for a web browser that I liked.

Netscape 4 worked. somewhat. but iframes required IE5 or mozilla. so I installed mozilla, found bugs that were fixed in cvs so I started to have a nightly cron job that pulled  cvs HEAD and built mozilla. Then I found galeon.

 

I still did my nightly upgrade until the middle of 2001 when gecko became stable enough that I was happy with galeon.

 

This weekend I saw an article about flock and decided to try it out.

A quick google found flock and instructions for building it, but no download for debian, but quick very familiar instructions and a quick five line script and my computer had "sulfur" compiled.

So I am now using "sulfur" (flock beta) as my browser when using facebook If myspace worked like dig facebook, youtube, and the rest of the supported sites, I don't see how anyone the does organizing would ever use a generic browser.

 In a future post I will go into more detail about flock, 

 

 

 

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 October 2008 10:01