Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)
Are there any graphical browsers that will run on the console and render
to framebuffer or GGI, and currently work fairly well? I remember hearing
about one, but don't remember the name, and I recall at the time it was
in alpha/developmental stage.
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> On Aug 16 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > Mozilla should improve much of this, but the default build is far
> > too complex for a basic browser.
>
> Not to mention that this implies that Mozilla is *slow* (since
> it doesn't fit in core), depending on what it is doing (for
> basic navigation, it is ok; opening a new window makes it
> slow; navigating through the Preferences menus is even
> *slower*).
>
> > Gzilla and/or Gnutella look like far more promising projects. Both
> > are based on the Gecko rendering engine, but strip out much of the
> > bloat being pumped into Mozilla.
>
> I don't know why the rationale of such a complex application
> is. Not even making considerations from a usability
> standpoint, the Mozilla coordination must have nightmares
> every single night for maintaining such a huge project. One of
> the basic laws of engineering is the KISS principle, of
> course.
>
> Anyway, back on the alternatives, Gzilla indeed looks like a
> promising project. It is nowadays called Armadillo and, last I
> checked, its homepage was http://www.gzilla.com/. Another free
> web-browser is Mnemonic, which even has packages for Debian.
> Its site is http://www.mnemonic.org/.
>
> BTW, it would be nice if people started using these browsers
> and giving feedback to their developers. In the mean time, we
> may continue to use w3m or links or lynx as our nice text
> browsers. All three are packaged in potato. :-)
>
>
> []s, Roger...
>
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