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: 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