Discovered a new browser...
Tom Huppi
thuppi at huppi.com
Sat Jan 22 00:34:11 PST 2005
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
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