Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-08-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Mihamina Rakotomandimby mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org 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 redering engine.
 On that field you mostly have no choice but Webkit and Gecko.
 Unfortunately, they are the engine under Chrom* and Firefox, even Opera.
 Espacially for Midori, it's Webkit.
 These are IMPOV really heavy pieces of softwares.

 OTOH, as you mentionned, nowadays webpages are full of those Javascript
 pieces of code that really need to be parsed and interpreted.
 There is one point of salvation, anyway: the mobile layout, that is mostly
 kept simple and light.
 Try, with your browser, to switch the User-Agent so that the website
 detects it as a mobile then sends you the relevant layout.
 On some browser (Firefox) you'll have to install an extension (you looked for
 lightness, but...).


Good advice.  It works.

Thanks.

Rodolfo



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 rodolfo.med...@gmail.com 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 command to get the processor back soon
in its speed such as it was before opening the web browser?  Apologises for not
having the right technical terms...

Thanks,

Rodolfo


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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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness or zRAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram.

Good Luck!

2015-07-11 18:04 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com:

 Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com 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 command to get the processor back
 soon
 in its speed such as it was before opening the web browser?  Apologises
 for not
 having the right technical terms...

 Thanks,

 Rodolfo


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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com 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 light, but I see almost no difference with Firefox.  Please
 any advice for a *really* light one, suitable for that old machine?  Or maybe
 the problem is actually the in the heavier and heavier web pages in
 themselves?

 Thanks for any help,

 Rodolfo

It seems that the problem has no solution.  All the various web browsers
suggested (many thanks to all listers), in alternative to Firefox, lose
capability and aren't fully functional: don't enter all the web sites and don't
open all web pages.  Developers themselves couldn't help.

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.  So my problem is still there.

Rodolfo


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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 wfok...@web.de 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, and to avoid updating, and, to recommend against
 installing it, is the inclusion of the malware named speed dial, and,
 the obsession of the opera staff, with preventing users from disabling
 the malware that is named speed dial.
 
I wonder whether old Opera versions WITHOUT Speed Dial would be safer
compared to using recent versions WITH Speed Dial integrated.

 As soon as someone finds how to disable speed dial, the opera people
 prevent speed dial from being disabled in the next version.
 
 So, for a web browser that is efficient, I suggest lynx.
 
 And, I recommend against installing opera.

As I don't have to rely on my slow serial modem any more to connect to the
Internet, I am using Opera only when I need to completely block out nasty
ads.

With a right mouse click on a blank Opera screen, I have opened the Speed
Dial configurtion menu allowing me to diminish and/or hide Speed Dial
completely; whether this still enables intruders to exploit it as malware,
I'd like to know.

So far, I haven't experienced any abuse of my computer abstaining strictly
from facebook, twitter etc., using only 'mutt' as my mailer.


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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) and potentially velocity in rendering pages (CPU cycle
 usage).
 I thought downloading images slowed down a lot...
 
 If downloading images slows down, then it is the download which is slow. Not
 the browser.
 
 
 Thanks to listers for all the suggestions.  But with Dillo, Lynx, w3m, 
 Netsurf,
 with all of them I have the same problem: I can't access my e-mail account on
 www.libero.it: when I try to, I'm redirected on the previous page.  Please
 anybody knows why and how to fix that?
 
 
 Change the user agent of the browser your using to match some Firefox one.
 Check http://whatsmyuseragent.com/CommonUserAgents

Not possible with netsurf, it's a hard coded. You're better to try and
contact the webmaster and get it changed anyway.

http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/plain/Docs/PACKAGING-GTK

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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-03 Thread albcares
2015-07-02 18:44 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com:

 bri...@aracnet.com writes:

  On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:18:48 + (UTC)
  Glyn Astill glynast...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
 
 
   From: Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk
  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:
   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?
  
  
  Netsurf? Midori?
  
  I have been very impressed by netsurf and the good people behind it :)
  
 
 
  +1 for netsurf here.
 
 
 
  the things you discover in this list !
 
  netsurf is really nice.

 Unfortunately it won't log me into my email account down there in
 www.libero.it.

 Rodolfo

 hallo
I had the same problem with an account on virgilio.it. I tried to open it
through an old version of Firefox (I mean, FF15 or some) but nothing: it
was always redirecting me to the home page. At the same time, I could use
Opera and all ran well.
My laptop being a Acer 1400 empowered (?) with 1 G ram, openSuSE,  I was
afraid of installing a newer version of Firefox but finally I did and
virgilio,it started to open regularly.

In another older desktop pc Pentium II with zenwalk (slackware) I tried to
install IceCat. I might have tuned it rather better, but I think You're
able to manage with it. Try this, I'm afraid you need to download the
source-code and configure by hand...

good luck! let's know.

A.C.

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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 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 the three options can be made the default, to be altered according
to one's need while browsing.)

So I had No Images as my default, starting Opera in text only modus;
this allowed me to move between URLs pretty fast, and when I had reached
an interesting URL, I could easily turn on graphics mode.

As pure text browsers, I prefer both: elinks and lynx.




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).



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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 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
 claimed to be light, but I see almost no difference with Firefox.

What are the specs of this machine?  I haven't tried Chromium, but on
one old laptop (PII 300MHz, 160MB RAM) I tried installing Firefox 35.

Out of the box config on Firefox had the thing rattling its swap
constantly.  There were some options that I could tweak that made it a
little better, but not by much, it was still as slow as a 5-day Ashes test.

I'm not sure if Webkit would fare better, I could dig up those settings
if you're interested.
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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 02/07/2015, Wilko Fokken wfok...@web.de 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, and to avoid updating, and, to recommend against
installing it, is the inclusion of the malware named speed dial, and,
the obsession of the opera staff, with preventing users from disabling
the malware that is named speed dial.

As soon as someone finds how to disable speed dial, the opera people
prevent speed dial from being disabled in the next version.

So, for a web browser that is efficient, I suggest lynx.

And, I recommend against installing opera.

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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Mihamina Rakotomandimby mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org 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] || [Cached Images] || [No Images] }

 (Any of the three options can be made the default, to be altered according
 to one's need while browsing.)

 So I had No Images as my default, starting Opera in text only modus;
 this allowed me to move between URLs pretty fast, and when I had reached
 an interesting URL, I could easily turn on graphics mode.

 As pure text browsers, I prefer both: elinks and lynx.



 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 downloading images slowed down a lot...

Thanks to listers for all the suggestions.  But with Dillo, Lynx, w3m, Netsurf,
with all of them I have the same problem: I can't access my e-mail account on
www.libero.it: when I try to, I'm redirected on the previous page.  Please
anybody knows why and how to fix that?

Thanks,

Rodolfo


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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Glyn Astill

 From: Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk
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:
 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?
 

Netsurf? Midori?

I have been very impressed by netsurf and the good people behind it :)



+1 for netsurf here.


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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 downloading images slowed down a lot...


If downloading images slows down, then it is the download which is slow. 
Not the browser.




Thanks to listers for all the suggestions.  But with Dillo, Lynx, w3m, Netsurf,
with all of them I have the same problem: I can't access my e-mail account on
www.libero.it: when I try to, I'm redirected on the previous page.  Please
anybody knows why and how to fix that?



Change the user agent of the browser your using to match some Firefox one.
Check http://whatsmyuseragent.com/CommonUserAgents


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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Kruppt

On 2015-07-01, Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com 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
 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?  Or maybe the
 problem is actually the in the heavier and heavier web pages in themselves?

 Thanks for any help,

 Rodolfo



One that was not mentioned yet;
http://www.qupzilla.com/
There is a deb package for it in repos.


root@aptosid-shuttle:/home/kruppt/scripts# apt-cache search qupzilla
libqupzilla-dev - development files for qupzilla's shared library
libqupzilla1 - shared library and header files for qupzilla
qupzilla - lightweight web browser based on libqtwebkit

root@aptosid-shuttle:/home/kruppt/scripts# dpkg-query -p qupzilla
Package: qupzilla
Priority: extra
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 4915
Maintainer: Georges Khaznadar georg...@debian.org
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.6.6-1
Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.6-6~), libgcc1 (= 1:4.1.1), 
libqt4-dbus (= 4:4.8.0~), libqt4-network (= 4:4.8.0~), 
libqt4-script (= 4:4.8.0~), libqt4-sql (= 4:4.8.0~), 
libqtcore4 (= 4:4.8.0~), libqtgui4 (= 4:4.8.0~), 
libqtwebkit4 (= 2.1.0~2011week13), libqupzilla1 (= 1.6.6-1), 
libstdc++6 (= 4.4.0), libqt4-sql-sqlite
Size: 849366
Description: lightweight web browser based on libqtwebkit
 QupZilla is a new and very fast QtWebKit browser. It aims to be a
 lightweight web browser available through all major platforms. This
 project has been originally started only for educational
 purposes. But from its start, QupZilla has grown into a feature-rich
 browser.
 .
 QupZilla has all standard functions you expect from a web browser. It
 includes bookmarks, history (both also in sidebar) and tabs. Above
 that, you can manage RSS feeds with an included RSS reader, block ads
 with a builtin AdBlock plugin, block Flash content with Click2Flash
 and edit the local CA Certificates database with an SSL Manager.
 .
 QupZilla's main aim is to be a very fast and very stable QtWebKit
 browser available to everyone.
 
Homepage: http://www.qupzilla.com/


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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread briand
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:18:48 + (UTC)
Glyn Astill glynast...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

 
  From: Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk
 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:
  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?
  
 
 Netsurf? Midori?
 
 I have been very impressed by netsurf and the good people behind it :)
 
 
 
 +1 for netsurf here.
 
 

the things you discover in this list !

netsurf is really nice. 


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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
bri...@aracnet.com writes:

 On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:18:48 + (UTC)
 Glyn Astill glynast...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

 
  From: Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk
 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:
  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?
  
 
 Netsurf? Midori?
 
 I have been very impressed by netsurf and the good people behind it :)
 
 
 
 +1 for netsurf here.
 
 

 the things you discover in this list !

 netsurf is really nice. 

Unfortunately it won't log me into my email account down there in
www.libero.it.

Rodolfo


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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 machine?
 

Netsurf? Midori?

I have been very impressed by netsurf and the good people behind it :)

All the best,

AndyC


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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 rodolfo.med...@gmail.com 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 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?  Or maybe the problem is actually
 the in the heavier and heavier web pages in themselves?
 
 Thanks for any help,
 
 Rodolfo
 
 

Take a look at http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
   https://packages.debian.org/jessie/netsurf-gtk


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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-01 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 07:21:56 +0100
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com 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 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?  Or maybe the problem is actually
 the in the heavier and heavier web pages in themselves?

Maybe Dillo[1] could be an alternative if you want a graphical browser,
or there is always Lynx[2]. How light a browser you can actually use
will depend on what level of functionality you need.

[1] http://www.dillo.org/
[2] http://lynx.isc.org/

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Re: Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-01 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 no choice but Webkit and Gecko.
Unfortunately, they are the engine under Chrom* and Firefox, even Opera.
Espacially for Midori, it's Webkit.
These are IMPOV really heavy pieces of softwares.

OTOH, as you mentionned, nowadays webpages are full of those Javascript 
pieces of code that really need to be parsed and interpreted.
There is one point of salvation, anyway: the mobile layout, that is 
mostly kept simple and light.
Try, with your browser, to switch the User-Agent so that the website 
detects it as a mobile then sends you the relevant layout.
On some browser (Firefox) you'll have to install an extension (you 
looked for lightness, but...).


HTH.


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Light web browser for old PC

2015-07-01 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 difference with Firefox.  Please any
advice for a *really* light one, suitable for that old machine?  Or maybe the
problem is actually the in the heavier and heavier web pages in themselves?

Thanks for any help,

Rodolfo


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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 altered according
to one's need while browsing.)

So I had No Images as my default, starting Opera in text only modus;
this allowed me to move between URLs pretty fast, and when I had reached
an interesting URL, I could easily turn on graphics mode.

As pure text browsers, I prefer both: elinks and lynx.


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