From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 02:07:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6177416A4CF for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 02:07:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B6143D48 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 02:07:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23DF869A39; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:07:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:07:52 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Bruce Hunter Message-Id: <20040630220752.60339fe1.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1088645947.32566.8.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com> References: <1088645947.32566.8.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome installing Mozilla by default X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 02:07:54 -0000 Bruce Hunter wrote: > Hello, > > When I install the Gnome port, it installs Mozilla 1.6 as default. I > guess Epiphany 1.2.6 uses it. > > I have a few questions: > > 1) How do I get Epiphany to not use Mozilla and what performance hit > will I take for doing this, if any? I think the performance hit will be that Epiphany won't work at all. It seems to me that Epiphany is using Mozilla's rendering engine, without it, Epiphany is nothing more than a text viewer (it probably won't work at all ... Ephiphany lists Mozilla as a "dependency") > 2) If Epiphany doesn't use mozilla, then what does it use? It uses Mozilla, period. > 3) Mozilla seems to be a system resource hog. At least this version that > is installed. I just need a browser that is fasssttt, doesn't mess up > the fonts, and is capable of viewing flash? I don't need all that other > stuff mozilla installs, such as, the email client, etc.. Not gonna happen. The complex part of a modern browser is the rendering engine that has to take the convoluted HTML/CSS standards and turn them into something pretty on the screen. You could install something like Firefox ... which is the minimum pieces of Mozilla necessary to be a browser, but you probably wouldn't save much as resources go. You could install something like dillo ... which is incredibly small and fast, but it won't support all that fancy stuff like flash and "perfect fonts". Simple fact is that HTML has been bastardized to be far more complex than there's any need for, thus you need a huge program, powerful processor and gigs of RAM to "surf the web" these days. However, I would surf through all the browsers in the ports until you find something as close to what you want as possible ... there's lots of choices, and one of them is bound to be reasonably close to what you're looking for. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com