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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: fox on 10 September 2002, 05:29

Title: Alternative Ligthweigth Browser?
Post by: fox on 10 September 2002, 05:29

Very low on RAM (32mb, 2 of which are eaten by the onboard videocard) and not a last generation processor (intel 233mmx)

Here's the problem, I like Mozilla, but it seems that unless I double my RAM it won't do any decent speed on my win98...

I've also tested that "BrowseX" thing that apears on the links of this page, and now I'm downloading Opera to see if it's any better...

BrowseX seems to work quite nice, but it just refuses to be associated to the url protocol nor to the .htm . . .

Any suggestions (but adding RAM)

By the way... when I decide to finally install X to my text-only linux distro, I guess I will be asking the same for that platform... so...

[ September 10, 2002: Message edited by: FoX ]

Title: Alternative Ligthweigth Browser?
Post by: Bazoukas on 10 September 2002, 05:42

try lynx  (http://smile.gif)

Title: Alternative Ligthweigth Browser?
Post by: Master of Reality on 10 September 2002, 05:44

hmmmmmmm.... I have always used Mozilla. I have found Opera, Konqueror, IE, Netscape, to all be slower......!!!!! I got it!!! use Arachne, it is a DOS broswer that is supposedly very fast.
http://arachne.browser.org/ (http://arachne.browser.org/)

Title: Alternative Ligthweigth Browser?
Post by: fox on 10 September 2002, 07:15

thanks, but I guess I'll stick with Browse-X... I like its "compactness"...

Anybody know something about that issue of not being able to associate it to .htm files??

[ September 09, 2002: Message edited by: FoX ]

Title: Alternative Ligthweigth Browser?
Post by: Calum on 10 September 2002, 15:46

nope, sorry.

what i might recommend is getting a version of opera from a couple of years ago. up until recently opera was a free browser which had smallness as it's highest priority.

you should be able to find older versions of it kicking about...

Title: Alternative Ligthweigth Browser?
Post by: creedon on 10 September 2002, 19:19

Give Dillo a shot; it's written completely in C and it's faster than a scalded cat.  For REAL speed, go to the CLI and run LYNX; that kinda makes browsing porno sites pointless, though.  :D

Title: Alternative Ligthweigth Browser?
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 11 September 2002, 00:08

I'd say lynx too...

Why not add RAM? It's dirt cheap to double 32...1x 64mb chip (with the 32 for a total of 96) would be like 25 bucks.

But if you don't want to add (which you said you didn't) go with lynx.

Title: Alternative Ligthweigth Browser?
Post by: Calum on 11 September 2002, 01:08

i tell you! opera 3.2 is what you're after! arachne and lynx are both text only browsers.

unfortunately i went on a quick look and opera 3.2 seems to only be findable for win32. in any case, here are a couple of download links for this browser, which is small and fast. no support for java runtime environment though, but only 1.2Mb to download:

http://members.tripod.com/~randomluck/o321o32.exe (http://members.tripod.com/~randomluck/o321o32.exe)

http://traviata.nta.no/o321g32.exe (http://traviata.nta.no/o321g32.exe)

(http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/65395/Opera32.jpg)

Title: Alternative Ligthweigth Browser?
Post by: fox on 11 September 2002, 05:23

thanx, i'll check that version of Opera...

um, and where do I get that "dillo" thing?


And the RAM thing.... well, with my country's currency falling to 1/4 US$, it suddenly became harder to upgrade hardware...
(anyway, I guess that in about a month or two I'll be "permanently borrowing" some RAM, so that'll solve my problem... XD)

Title: Alternative Ligthweigth Browser?
Post by: md2lgyk on 11 September 2002, 16:19

http://dillo.cipsga.org.br/ (http://dillo.cipsga.org.br/)