Have you met dillo ?? This is the fastest browser that I know. But it is not full implemented.
Eduardo On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:05:47 +0000 "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:32:12PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > one of the things that bother me in my set-up is browser. mozilla is > > what i use currently and i have to wait for ages before it loads. for > > text login, i have tried lynx and links. both are decent and quick but > > none of support for folders in bookmarks. > > For a general set of reviews: > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers. > > My personal GUI browser of choice on modern systems is Galeon. > Responsiveness is a factor, but overall useablity matters far more. For > text/console browsing, w3m (similar to links, but different keybindings, > and IMO more usefully configureable). > > There are a number of transition points for browsing. Running X on a > system with less than 486 processor and 32 MiB RAM is not recommended. > A minimal end-user desktop can be run on a Pentium with 32 MiB or more, > but software choices are going to be limited. For a "modern" desktop, a > PII-300MHz system with 128MB+ RAM is a baseline. 1GHz & 256 makes for a > snappy box, 2GHz+, 512MB+, and SCSI disks would be a screamer. > > > > For console clients: w3m, no second thoughts. Running it within > 'screen' in a terminal window in X is also surprisingly useful. > > > > The lightest graphical browser I know of is dillo. It will run on older > hardware, and is relatively stable. It's also very feature poor. > > Opera is fast. I don't run it much (frankly it annoys me), and I don't > know of its memory footprint requirements. > > Older Netscape browsers (3.x and 4.x series) may work for old hardware. > These are abandoned projects, and may have significant security risks. > The 4.x and 6.x series were abominations: buggy, flouting standards, > and prone to crashing. > > BrowseX, previously mentioned here, is based on Tk/Tcl. It has a small > disk footprint (other browsers, including dillo, require additional > libraries). Its runtime footprint is larger than dillo, and it's > markedly less responsive, though fairly full featured. If I had to pick > a small, but featureful, browser, it would be BrowseX. > > Konqueror performs fairly well, and is packaged with KDE. As a browser, > it's fairly responsive, though you'll probably find KDE drags down an > older system. Konq *can* be run independently of KDE. > > Phoenix, Skipstone, Galeon, and Mozilla are all based on the Gecko > rendering engine, in rough order of lightness. Again, my preference is > Galeon. None of these is particularly suited for older hardware (say: > P-133/64MB), and none of them appears markedly faster or slower than the > others. Galeon and Mozilla are the most polished of the set. > > > > > i am looking for a browser that will load quickly, have bookmarking > > ability - preferably with folders. > > Again, my pick on anything remotely resembling modern HW is Galeon. > > Peace. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
