From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 08:34:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB6816A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:34:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nuumen.pair.com (nuumen.pair.com [209.68.1.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A2A943D54 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:34:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thuppi@nuumen.pair.com) Received: (qmail 64543 invoked by uid 55300); 22 Jan 2005 08:34:09 -0000 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:34:09 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi X-X-Sender: thuppi@nuumen.pair.com To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Discovered a new browser... X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:34:11 -0000 I have several old machines here and there, and developments in X and current browsers are really starting to hurt. I remember fondly the days when the open-source crowd refered to Microsoft software as 'bloatware'. What is really killing me are large pages like Python's html documentation which I keep locally. I just discovered a solution for _that_ problem which I thought I'd share and which I doubt that everyone is aware of. It's a browser called 'dillo'. It's written in C, and it seems extraordinarily fast. It's capabilities are quite limited (doesn't even do frames correctly), but it's still very usable for a lot of things. In fact, I kinda like how it does Google's 'groups' frames page. It just puts the right frame down below. It also seems more stable than 'Oprah' which, when I tried it several years ago, was *the* most unstable thing I've ever tried to run on FreeBSD with the possible exception of the windows CAD program 'microstation95' running through 'wine' :) Anyway, it might be worth looking at. It can be built from the ports collection and tried out in the time it takes to start mozilla. I can almost say that *literally*! Thanks, - Tom