Discovered a new browser...

[Herbert Feutl]

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
> 
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