Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:34:09 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Discovered a new browser... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501220328220.12163@nuumen.pair.com>
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I have several old machines here and there, and developments in X and current browsers are really starting to hurt. I remember fondly the days when the open-source crowd refered to Microsoft software as 'bloatware'. What is really killing me are large pages like Python's html documentation which I keep locally. I just discovered a solution for _that_ problem which I thought I'd share and which I doubt that everyone is aware of. It's a browser called 'dillo'. It's written in C, and it seems extraordinarily fast. It's capabilities are quite limited (doesn't even do frames correctly), but it's still very usable for a lot of things. In fact, I kinda like how it does Google's 'groups' frames page. It just puts the right frame down below. It also seems more stable than 'Oprah' which, when I tried it several years ago, was *the* most unstable thing I've ever tried to run on FreeBSD with the possible exception of the windows CAD program 'microstation95' running through 'wine' :) Anyway, it might be worth looking at. It can be built from the ports collection and tried out in the time it takes to start mozilla. I can almost say that *literally*! Thanks, - Tom
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