hello all,
I've been lurking for a bit, but now it's time to post
a question.
for many reasons, i am looking for a web browser with the
following minimum requirements:
0. runs on linux.
1. not CPU intensive. the box it's going to run on is
ah, wimpy. the same box is also the NAT and samba
server here (among other things). i've been using
kfm but it eats too much CPU and when it does (or
when someone is doing some serious file transfer via
smbd), NAT slows down. or maybe that's the kernel
networking code. whatever it is, network performance
approaches total abysmality :).
2. is "good enough" at rendering pages. i don't NEED
compliance with the latest standards. most sites
the users are interested in still do old HTML, so
if it does what Netscape 3.x, could do, that's good
enough.
3. graphical (the users cannot deal with lynx, and i cannot
deal with teaching them... for that matter, *I* can't
deal with lynx either :).
4. either does not support Javascript at all, or Javascript
can be disabled by the superuser and regular users cannot
circumvent this disabling.
5. either does not support Java or Java can be disabled.
a quick search on google brought this up:
http://www.netspace.net.au/~gcross/browsers.html#ready
but if people have already got something working and liked it,
i'd prefer that to testing individual browsers from there.
i'd much prefer leaning on someone else's experience and wisdom
than downloading source (or binaries, for the stuff that's
binary only), compiling and testing everything (see #2, this
is a wimpy box :).
thank you all for any assistance.
tiger
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