From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 8 16:14:10 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 0F23316A4CE for ; Sat, 8 May 2004 16:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (outbound03.telus.net [199.185.220.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6E643D68 for ; Sat, 8 May 2004 16:14:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) Received: from byx0rm.mr-clevver.com ([154.20.11.99]) by priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.netESMTP <20040508231408.JWYO24390.priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net@byx0rm.mr-clevver.com>; Sat, 8 May 2004 17:14:08 -0600 Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 16:14:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo X-X-Sender: viktorlazlo@byx0rm.mr-clevver.com To: Zhang Weiwu In-Reply-To: <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com> Message-ID: <20040508141650.U38128@byx0rm.mr-clevver.com> References: <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 23:14:10 -0000 On Sat, 8 May 2004, Zhang Weiwu 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. > > 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. > > Perhaps Epiphany is the only choice? If so can we make it even lighter? For a browser, try: (14:17:45 <~>) $ cat /usr/ports/www/dillo/pkg-descr Dillo is a web browser project completely written in C (currently the code is based on gzilla-0.2.2's widget, and a new improved network engine written from scratch). Dillo is small; source is less than 360 kB and binary is less than 270 Kb. Dillo aims to be a multiplatform browser alternative that's small, stable, developer-friendly, usable, fast, and extensible. Dillo is mainly based on GTK+ (GNOME is NOT required!) Dillo is very fast! WWW: http://www.dillo.org/ Cheers, Viktor