Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 06:20:18PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:58:06 -0800, Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [snip] It's not for older/slower boxen though. I'd recommend *NO LESS* than a PII-233, and think you'll be happier with a PIII-600+ CPU. For

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-03 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Rob Mahurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 06:20:18PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:58:06 -0800, Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [snip] It's not for older/slower boxen though. I'd recommend *NO LESS* than a PII-233, and

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-03 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:29 AM +0100, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Seneca Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020201 11:05]: David Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very good reason for not wanting to install GNOME or another

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:29 AM +0100, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Seneca Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020201 11:05]: David Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very good reason for not wanting to install GNOME or another desktop manager. I tried GNOME about a month

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-02 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:58:06 -0800, Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [snip] It's not for older/slower boxen though. I'd recommend *NO LESS* than a PII-233, and think you'll be happier with a PIII-600+ CPU. For memory, 128 MiB minimum, 256 strongly recommended. Particularly under

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com spake thus: I'll also strongly plug Galeon. If you're not violently allergic to GNOME libs (and yes, it does suck in a whole mess of them, along with all of Mozilla), it's an ass-kicking browser. Just out of curiosity: use (I can easily get over 100

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-01 Thread Karsten Heymann
* Seneca Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020201 11:05]: David Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very good reason for not wanting to install GNOME or another desktop manager. I tried GNOME about a month ago, and it's performance was similar to that of my 286 when windows 3.0 was installed

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Karsten Heymann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, galeon depends on the gnome libs installed, but it does not depend on gnome running. If your disk space is not a problem, you could try it out. Apart from that, w3m and links are very cool too (and don't forget netcat :-)) I use w3m, but does

What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the network that I use was set up, the gateway software that was decided upon requires the browsers used to have java support. I can't get away from it, I

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:44:01 -0500 So I was wondering about if there are any good, _small_ browsers like that. I tried mozilla on my system, and I had enough time to eat lunch while it started up (I have since removed mozilla). I have X4 installed and working, but I don't want to install any

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread David Moore
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 20:44, Seneca Cunningham wrote: I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the network that I use was set up, the gateway software that was decided upon requires the browsers

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread Seneca Cunningham
David Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 20:44, Seneca Cunningham wrote: I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the network that I use was set up, the gateway software

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 05:52 pm, David Moore wrote: [snip] Try Opera. It's non-free, but it seems like what you want. I personally would prefer Galeon, but that won't work if you don't want to install GNOME. there's a small browser (albeit non-free) called xbrowse that won't force you

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread Caleb Shay
There's always hotjava. On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 17:44, Seneca Cunningham wrote: I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the network that I use was set up, the gateway software that was decided

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:44:01PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: | I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I | want to access the internet on. 'links' is real small and lightweight | A problem that I have is that when the | network that I use was set up, the

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread csj
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:52:15 -0500 David B Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:44:01 -0500 So I was wondering about if there are any good, _small_ browsers like that. I tried mozilla on my system, and I had enough time to eat lunch while it started up (I have since

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:46 pm, csj wrote: [snip] http://www.browsex.com/ And like the real thing it's free (Artistic License). Says the site: BrowseX has been written primarily in C and Tcl and clearly demonstrates that Linux applications can indeed bridge to Windows. The claim is

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread csj
On 31 Jan 2002 20:52:19 -0500 David Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 20:44, Seneca Cunningham wrote: I have a small system (100MHz pentium, 900M /usr, 1024K video ram) that I want to access the internet on. A problem that I have is that when the network that I use was

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread csj
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:43:11 -0800 ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:46 pm, csj wrote: [snip] http://www.browsex.com/ And like the real thing it's free (Artistic License). Says the site: BrowseX has been written primarily in C and Tcl and clearly

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 07:25 pm, csj wrote: [snip] Your earlier post said small browser (albeit non-free) called xbrowse. Are there any religious reasons why the Artistic License is considered non-free? i actually meant to say non-deb. the coffee just isn't kicking in today. ben