On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote:
Tiger, try opera. It's not open source, but it's free. And very very
fast. http://www.opera.com
FOr text mode browsing, try links (do a search in freshmeat). It's much
better than lynx, and can render frames correctly.
> 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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