Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 16:14:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> To: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the most light weight X web browser? Message-ID: <20040508141650.U38128@byx0rm.mr-clevver.com> In-Reply-To: <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com> References: <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com>
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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
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