Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:26:56 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Browser Message-ID: <20120104212656.GA15264@hemlock.hydra> In-Reply-To: <8C0EEF92-18FD-45A8-90EF-F26EC8762704@googlemail.com> References: <CAHsiZG-op0MO79qaWG2gRLYLeaTKcip8iabQ%2B0AYQVK7iDZ5pg@mail.gmail.com> <20120104165405.GF8500@hemlock.hydra> <8C0EEF92-18FD-45A8-90EF-F26EC8762704@googlemail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:48:35PM +0000, Peter Harrison wrote: > > Chad, > > xxxterm is in ports - at least I have it installed on my netbook and > although I can't remember how it got there, I never (ever) install > stuff that's not in ports. Thanks for correcting that. I did not find it last time I looked, though I may have relied on a nonstandard ports tree search tool that sometimes (unexpectedly) fails to update its search database. It's good to hear xxxterm is available in ports. > > I installed for exactly the same reasons you're looking at it - fast > lean browser with good (vi-like) keybindings. I'm playing with it now. I find I need to rebind a lot of functionality to make it feel really vi-like, and some of the bindings I would like to use are not possible with the keybinding configuration capabilities of xxxterm as they are currently implemented. The maintainer has invited me to submit a patch; whether I do so will definitely depend on how much time I have to figure it all out. In the meantime, I'm checking to see how well I can get by using it as my primary browser for a while. > > Firefox runs like a dog on my atom processor, but I do still keep it > around for some stuff although compiling to keep their release schedule > is gradually turning me off. I don't blame you. > > First impressions of xxxterm are that it's very good. The keybinding is > quite as good as uzbl or vimperator on firefox, but it's live-able > with, and it seems to have fewer performance or configuration > downsides. > I find the keybindings of Uzbl and Pentadactyl better than those of xxxterm so far; I stopped using Vimperator in favor of Pentadactyl a while back, so I'm probably not qualified to comment on its current state. Did you mean to say "The keybinding is *not* quite as good . . ." or did you mean it is, as you wrote it here? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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