I haven't made any further advances in terms of finding a suitable graphical browser for BL2. I tried out BrowseX, recommended by someone on one of these lists, but preliminary tests on my 486 DX2 66 with 20MB RAM showed it to be as insufferably slow as Netscape 4.76. This is on a Vectorlinux install with the 2.2.16 kernel. There were some dns resolution problems with BrowseX that I never quite figured out: I'm doing all this in my "spare time" - which barely exists - so I was not able to do much in the way of troubleshooting on that problem. Neither have I been able to do much in the way of system tweaking to see if I might get those browsers to function more acceptably on that system. One thing I have done which is only marginally related bears, I think, noting on the browser issue.
I have to run MSWin from time to time for certain applications I need to run for research purposes. No Linux counterparts of these applications exist. As a way of trying to save face ideologically, I run an older version of Win that came with a computer I bought a few years ago, and I run it in an emulator (VMWare) under Linux (take THAT, Billy G.!). Anyway, I needed a browser for that Win install, and did not want to go with IE. In former days, I used a browser under Win called "Kmeleon", which is based on Mozilla but is a stripped-down version. Its download was around 4MB. Development on Kmeleon seemed to have stopped about a year ago, but in searching for a browser for the Win I run under VMWare, I decided to check and see if it was still moribund. Seems development is once more active, so I downloaded and installed. It's a nice browser, superior to Mozilla and without all the bulk (no mail client, no composer). The size (now closer to 5 MB for the download) would be good for BL, as would, perhaps the performance - were it made for Linux rather than Win! Is there no counterpart to Kmeleon in the Linux world? The project shows that it's possible to trim Mozilla significantly and improve performance to, perhaps, survpc levels. Just wanted to offer this information in hopes that, if any such thing for Linux exists, it might be found and reported by someone. James To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
