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From: Roop Nanuwa <roop.nanuwa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: the most light weight X web browser?
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On Sat, 08 May 2004 17:21:36 +0800, Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello. My friend is running a tea house, she want to put her ancient
> Pentium 100 notebook (24MB memory) running FreeBSD 4.9, on the bar so
> customers can use it check mails and browse the web. (and I want to help
> her.) She want it to just function as a browser machine, she don't even
> need a window manager, the X starts up just to run a browser. (However a
> memory saving window manager is okay, too.

Take a look at Opera. It is extremely lightweight in both size, memory
footprint and CPU usage. It also has a built-in kiosk mode which would
probably be perfectly suited for use in the tea house.

It's under www/opera and www/opera-devel.

--roop