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From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas)
Subject: Re: Web browers for FreeBSD
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D. Gerasimatos (dim@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:


: I am running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and I am looking for WWW browsers. I am
: currently using chimera and a mosaic binary with static libs that's
: sort of buggy. I'd like to try another mosaic binary. I'd also like
: to try netscape, but I cannot find a working binary for FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
: (the generic bsd binary at ftp.mcom.com core dumps). If anyone knows
: where I can get these binaries, I'd appreciate it if they could help
: me. 
:

You might try "Phoenix" from the University of Chicago Biological 
Sciences department. Not only is is a WWW browser, it is a near-WYSIWYG 
HTML *editor*. It isn't quite as nice as the Mosaic browser, but it does 
compile and run on my FreeBSD v1.1.5.1/ XFree86 v2.0 machine (I think you 
will need several support libs and apps: tcl/tk etc.)

: Also, I am wondering which browsers are available in binary form for
: FreeBSD 2.0, as I am thinking of making the jump real soon now, and where
: I can find these. Thanks for the help!

My understanding is that the binary you have for NetScape is for FreeBSD 
v2.x. I'll be sticking with v1.1.5.1 on this box, but the next one I put 
together will be v2.1 (whenever).

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