Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-08-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Mihamina Rakotomandimby writes: > On 07/01/2015 09:21 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Hi ... As web browser, Midori was claimed to be light, but I see almost no >> difference with Firefox. Please any advice for a *really* light one, >> suitable for that old machine? > > Most browsers rely on the re

Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon? (was: Light web browser for old PC)

2015-07-11 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Hi, I think - You should try some tricks like swappiness or zRAM . Good Luck! 2015-07-11 18:04 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina : > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > > After closing Midori, my old PC for minutes and minutes remain

CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon? (was: Light web browser for old PC)

2015-07-11 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > After closing Midori, my old PC for minutes and minutes remains very very > slow. Then gradually, slowly, painfully, only after five or ten minutes it > starts working normally again. Then, to try to recover it, I do: $ sync , but this is not enough. Is there any co

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Hi all the listers. > > I have an old Hyundai Notebook too slow for Gnome, in fact I installed > openbox as Window Manager in it and am happy with it and think I'll be using > it for good, so simple fast and essential as it is. As web browser, Midori > was claimed to be

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-05 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 03:07:43PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 02/07/2015, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > In the past times, depending on a serial modem for internet access, > > I preferred Opera, because it allows to switch ANY graphics OFF // ON > > through simple menu buttons: > > > > A problem wit

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 03:52:36PM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 07/02/2015 02:25 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >Displaying images or not has very few things related to the browser heavyness > >and celerity/velocity. What the OP asked for is a lightweitght browser > >(memory footprint)

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-03 Thread albcares
2015-07-02 18:44 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina : > writes: > > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:18:48 + (UTC) > > Glyn Astill wrote: > > > >> > >> > From: Andrew M.A. Cater > >> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >> >Sent: Wednesda

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
writes: > On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:18:48 + (UTC) > Glyn Astill wrote: > >> >> > From: Andrew M.A. Cater >> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> >Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 19:15 >> >Subject: Re: Light web browser for old PC >

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread briand
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:18:48 + (UTC) Glyn Astill wrote: > > > From: Andrew M.A. Cater > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 19:15 > >Subject: Re: Light web browser for old PC > > > > > >On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 09

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Kruppt
On 2015-07-01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all the listers. > > I have an old Hyundai Notebook too slow for Gnome, in fact I installed openbox > as Window Manager in it and am happy with it and think I'll be using it for > good, so simple fast and essential as it is. As web browser, Midori was >

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 07/02/2015 02:25 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Displaying images or not has very few things related to the browser heavyness and celerity/velocity. What the OP asked for is a lightweitght browser (memory footprint) and potentially velocity in rendering pages (CPU cycle usage). I thought downloadi

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Mihamina Rakotomandimby writes: > On 07/02/2015 03:52 AM, Wilko Fokken wrote: >> In the past times, depending on a serial modem for internet access, >> I preferred Opera, because it allows to switch ANY graphics OFF // ON >> through simple menu buttons: >> >> [View]--> [Images]--> { [Show images]

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Glyn Astill
> From: Andrew M.A. Cater >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 19:15 >Subject: Re: Light web browser for old PC > > >On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 09:52:03AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> On 07/01/2015 09:21 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 02/07/2015, Wilko Fokken wrote: > In the past times, depending on a serial modem for internet access, > I preferred Opera, because it allows to switch ANY graphics OFF // ON > through simple menu buttons: > A problem with the opera web browser, that causes me to avoid using recent versions, an

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-01 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 07/02/2015 03:52 AM, Wilko Fokken wrote: In the past times, depending on a serial modem for internet access, I preferred Opera, because it allows to switch ANY graphics OFF // ON through simple menu buttons: [View]--> [Images]--> { [Show images] || [Cached Images] || [No Images] } (Any of th

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-01 Thread Stuart Longland
On 01/07/15 16:21, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all the listers. > > I have an old Hyundai Notebook too slow for Gnome, in fact I installed openbox > as Window Manager in it and am happy with it and think I'll be using it for > good, so simple fast and essential as it is. As web browser, Midori was

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-01 Thread Wilko Fokken
In the past times, depending on a serial modem for internet access, I preferred Opera, because it allows to switch ANY graphics OFF // ON through simple menu buttons: [View]--> [Images]--> { [Show images] || [Cached Images] || [No Images] } (Any of the three options can be made the default, to be

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 09:52:03AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 07/01/2015 09:21 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >Hi ... As web browser, Midori was > >claimed to be light, but I see almost no difference with Firefox. Please any > >advice for a *really* light one, suitable for that old ma

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-01 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 07:21:56 +0100 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all the listers. > > I have an old Hyundai Notebook too slow for Gnome, in fact I > installed openbox as Window Manager in it and am happy with it and > think I'll be using it for good, so simple fast and essential as it > is. As web

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-06-30 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 07/01/2015 09:21 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi ... As web browser, Midori was claimed to be light, but I see almost no difference with Firefox. Please any advice for a *really* light one, suitable for that old machine? Most browsers rely on the redering engine. On that field you mostly have

Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-06-30 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 07:21:56 +0100 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all the listers. > > I have an old Hyundai Notebook too slow for Gnome, in fact I > installed openbox as Window Manager in it and am happy with it and > think I'll be using it for good, so simple fast and essential as it > is. As web

Light web browser for old PC

2015-06-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all the listers. I have an old Hyundai Notebook too slow for Gnome, in fact I installed openbox as Window Manager in it and am happy with it and think I'll be using it for good, so simple fast and essential as it is. As web browser, Midori was claimed to be light, but I see almost no differenc