Debian squeeze (testing) - I am struggling to get a working browser

[Mark Hobley]

I am using Debian squeeze (testing). I don't know what has happened, but all
of the browsers appear to be broken at the moment. I am getting some major
faults. (It is my own fault for using testing. I know that I should be using
stable).

iceape - opens pages recursively, pages appear to be blank, cannot read
yahoo mail, buttons on websites do not work

iceweasel - pages appear ok, but buttons on websites do not work

konqueror - buttons on websites do not work, connections timeout

epiphany - I cannot prevent images from downloading. (I need to do this, I
am on a metered connection).

lynx - problems with cookies, but this is probably because I need to learn
how to configure it

dillo - has disappeared

chromium - I am just installing this now.

Mark.

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[The Natural Philosopher]

Mark Hobley wrote:
> I am using Debian squeeze (testing). I don't know what has happened, but all
> of the browsers appear to be broken at the moment. I am getting some major
> faults. (It is my own fault for using testing. I know that I should be using
> stable).
>
> iceape - opens pages recursively, pages appear to be blank, cannot read
> yahoo mail, buttons on websites do not work
>
> iceweasel - pages appear ok, but buttons on websites do not work
>

sounds like javascript is disabled.

> konqueror - buttons on websites do not work, connections timeout
>

Timeouts may be something else.

> epiphany - I cannot prevent images from downloading. (I need to do this, I
> am on a metered connection).
>

Epiphany is rubbish.

[Harald Meyer]

Mark Hobley wrote:

> prevent images from downloading. (I need to do this, I
> am on a metered connection).

I'm not a fan of proprietary closed source software, but Opera
can enable/disable image loading and has a Low Bandwidth Proxy
that saves a lot of transfer volume by re-compressing images
to a minimum JPEG quality.

[schmidi2]

On Sep 15, 2:51 pm, The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

Try another upgrade tomorrow. Try with a new user.
If you need always a working browser on testing its easiest to
download opera. It's statically linked so it should always work even
some buggy updates were applied to testing.

Best regards,
Benjamin Schmidt

[Kevin Bhasi]

is firefox available? go get it

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