From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 09:50:45 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 1A49B16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:50:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F8F943D2F for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:50:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from herbert.feutl@gmx.at) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Jan 2005 09:50:43 -0000 Received: from jennersdorf2-191-149.wco.wellcom.at (EHLO [192.168.123.120]) (195.230.191.149) by mail.gmx.net (mp024) with SMTP; 22 Jan 2005 10:50:43 +0100 X-Authenticated: #19369275 Message-ID: <41F221E9.3090101@gmx.at> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:50:33 +0100 From: Herbert Feutl User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Huppi References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 09:50:45 -0000 dillo is a nice browser, but problems with frames are not acceptable for me. so i found a better and faster solution. its smaller and faster and if you want, you can browse also in the text modus. also nice is, that you do not need a big display, so i can surf really good at 800x480. install: links pkg_add -r links start it with the option g und you have won. links -g makes links graphically thx herbert Tom Huppi schrieb: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >