Re: Discovered a new browser...
Herbert Feutl <[email protected]>
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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 > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"