Looking for web browser suggestions

kretsch

I'm running Gentoo on a K6-2 333MhZ laptop with 160mb RAM. Obviously, I'm gonna need something pretty fast if I want to browse the internet. As far as I've ever, the only extremely lightweight browsers tend to be that way because of lack of support for stuff like XML, PHP, scripting, etc. I'd like to lose as little of this functionality as possible.

I know that Mozilla Firephoenixfoxbird is supposedly much faster and more lightweight than vanilla Mozilla, but I haven't seen a difference because I've only used the two on modern hardware. So before I go through the long process of compiling either one, I'd like to know what people suggest, either which of the Mozillas would be better for me, or something completely different.

Thanks!
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R!tman · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:08 am Post subject:

Well, of course there is "lynx"

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I would suggest Mozilla Firefox or Opera.

johnmc · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:14 am Post subject:

I like firefox, but I wouldn't say it's exactly "lightweight".

I'd try something that's integrated with your desktop i.e. - Epiphany if you're a Gnome user, Konqueror (I think) for KDE.

I use Gnome and felt like Epiphany worked pretty well, just not quite as full-featured as I'd like. But it renders everyhing just fine. I don't know about Konqueror, but maybe someone else will chime in with an intelligent suggestion for KDE.

Yup, there's also Lynx, which renders everything perfectly too.... in ASCII

Just my two cents.
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kretsch · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:19 am Post subject:

The Gnome/KDE built-ins are out 'cuz I don't wanna take the 8 1/2 years it would require to compile Gnome or KDE on my laptop

. Plus I don't really need a desktop manager, and fluxbox works fine for what I my wm for, so Gnome or KDE or whatever would just eat up disk space in my situation.

I think I'm gonna give Firefox a shot and see if it will work reasonably quickly...and if not I guess ASCII isn't that bad....

Thanks for your input!
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odegard · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:34 am Post subject:

I'm on a p2-233 laptop with 96mb of ram. I've tried mozilla and firefox but they all pale compared to Opera both in speed and features.

Don't install the latest 7.50p3 as my experience is not that good. Get the last stable 7.23 which I think also is in portage.

Sometimes I use 'wget' to download whole webpages if I'm forced to go online for a while. Then I just use 'dillo' to view them locally but dillo is, like you mentioned, a lightweight browser and lacks some important functionality.

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Souperman · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:07 pm Post subject:

Since PHP is a server-side language, there's no such thing as a browser which supports PHP.

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