From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 8 04:34:16 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 0D79616A4CF for ; Sat, 8 May 2004 04:34:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-out4.xs4all.nl (smtp-out4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3478343D4C for ; Sat, 8 May 2004 04:34:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from albi@saynotomicrosoft.org) Received: from moonshine (213-84-173-33.adsl.xs4all.nl [213.84.173.33]) by smtp-out4.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i48BYEYm007875 for ; Sat, 8 May 2004 13:34:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from moonshine.eyfa.org (localhost.eyfa.org [127.0.0.1]) by moonshine (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CAAA191 for ; Sat, 8 May 2004 13:34:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 13:34:27 +0200 From: albi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040508133427.1b6315ea@moonshine.eyfa.org> In-Reply-To: <20040508095747.GA4141@ergo.nruns.com> References: <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com> <20040508095747.GA4141@ergo.nruns.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: the most light weight X web browser? 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: Sat, 08 May 2004 11:34:16 -0000 On Sat, 8 May 2004 11:57:47 +0200 jan.muenther@nruns.com wrote: > > But such a slow notebook what browser do you suggest to use? The > > harddisk don't have much space after the OS is installed, and memory > > is pretty limited. Epiphany comes to my mind, but it depends on > > Mozilla and gtk. If there is an extremely light weighted browser > > that just use Athena (or can be compiled so) it would be better. > > ever had a look at links' graphics mode (-g)? It's blazing fast and > really small - links just against xlib. i fully agree, links (version 2) in graphics mode is without doubt the fastest and most lightweight of all "graphic browsers" it has a few disadvantages though : 1) no copy and paste possible 2) you need to learn how to use the menubar (which is not so obvious) apart from that it's warmly recommended for this purpose :)