Comments about Linux/Ubuntu from a former MS-programmer

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 19:45 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 19:25 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:52 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:25 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > Nautilus can't browse the web?  Since when?  It definitely used to be
> > > > able to.
> > > 
> > > Hmmm yes, I too am sure it used to work, but I just tried it on Dapper
> > > and it doesn't work anymore :o(
> > 
> > Since about 2 or 3 years, from way before Firefox.
> 
> Hmmm... I don't know what Firefix has to do with that, but it certainly
> was working up until much more recently than this.
> For instance, when I discovered that Nautilus could browse the web, I
> was using Ubuntu. So even if it were with Warty (can't remember), this
> means it would have been "broken" when Warty was replaced by Hoary,
> which was same time last year, just 12 months ago. And if it was in
> Hoary, then it would have broken only 6 months ago with Breezy. So
> definitely not 2 years ago, nevermind 3....
> 

It was fairly recent, within the past year - there was even a bounty
"create a test quite for browsing with nautilus".

Last time I tried it, Nautilus was WAY too slow to even consider using
as a web browser - maybe tis feature was dropped so the performance
issues could be addressed?

Lee