Hi Michael, > It isn't Firefox and so there isn't a filtering plugin for it that will
You could write one. Arachne takes dozens or maybe hundreds of megabytes RAM less compared to Firefox. As you want to use DOS for internet, you apparently want a SMALL browser. Please remove Firefox from your system. Using a number of Linux web browsers to open the freedos.org homepage, I got amounts of RAM usage which make both Mozilla and Firefox inacceptable for use in DOS even if porting would be easy. At least you once said that you prefer DOS because it can run on older PCs which cannot run ReactOS or simple Linux. ReactOS works on Pentium I with 32 MB RAM afair, which is barely enough even for the DILLO browser. All browsers which use less than that are plain TEXT mode browsers: W3M, LYNX, ELINKS... Text mode would be worse than graphics you get in Arachne. > block certain web sites. It is very low resolution by today's standards It has SVGA 1024x768 as far as I remember. It could probably be modified to use any VESA supported resolution :-). > and php web pages aren't likely to work correctly with it. I've had PHP is something on the server, not related to any browser detail. > problems downloading from ftp sites with Arachne with the download > being corrupted. I don't like it when Arachne downloads to the cache Report the bug. > folder instead of the download folder to a file with a random name. Why? > If Arachne had an option to password protect any attempt to access > sites that aren't local to the machine it is running on, that would > be somewhat of an improvement. If you open a local file which has links to external web pages then you are the one who copied that file to the local PC anyway. It would be more useful to have warnings about redirects and iframes and javascripts pointing you from one EXTERNAL web page to another external web page on another server... As I do not think that Arachne supports iframes or javascript, you already avoid 2/3 of the bloat and of the risk ;-). > I really want to be able to run Firefox from Freedos running natively. > One option is to add a light distribution of Linux that runs on top > of Freedos with a light version of X and Firefox. Another option is It would be much much more easy to run normal Freedos on top of a normal Linux with a normal Firefox. What would the good points of using Freedos as a boot loader for a Linux with Firefox be? > to add an X client for Freedos. A third option is to port Firefox so Both options would take as much work as the development of Freedos itself, if not orders of magnitude more, if you are unlucky... > that it will work with a Freedos compatible gui such as opengem or > something else. I guess a fourth option is to see about porting > WINE to Freedos, but that would be a major undertaking. Do not worry, it might be much easier than porting Firefox to DOS. Of course it would still be much harder than running DOS in Linux. > Arachne is not a great substitute for Firefox It is the only real graphical browser available for DOS for free. So the way to a better browser would be to improve Arachne :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
