on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:16:14AM -0600, DvB (dvanbalen@jam.rr.com) wrote: > "Paolo Falcone" <fallenlordx@edsamail.com.ph> writes: > > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec wrote: > > > > >Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to >prefer it to Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla? > > > > <snip> > > > If you're to install to a low-end machine, just go for NS 4.77. > > Or one of mozilla's lighter weight offspring (i.e. galeon and skipstone) > which, I believe, have much smaller footprints. Konqueror's also pretty > small. My experience is that Galeon wants a PII-233 or better CPU. My slowest desktop is PPro 180, and that's just not enough umph. My preferred system is a PIII-600, which handles Galeon with ease (disk swap is a more significant issue). Skipstone's mildly lighter, but is still overly sluggish on the PPro. For informational browsing, I find w3m is my preferred client. See my site for a couple of wrappers intended to allow running w3m without providing a URL (it will open a local bookmarks file if it can find one), or the provided URL, and for running w3m in a terminal with screen. There's a hack with the $SHELL environment variable to allow spawning new screens within 'screen' and running w3m without explicitly invoking it, while still allowing proper shelling _out_ of w3m. I bind this to <shift><alt>-W on my WindowMaker session for quick browser access. For *really* lightweight graphical browsing, there's dillo (marginal feature support), which *is* packaged for Debian, or Browse-X (ssl and some related niceness) which _isn't*. Dillo fires up faster than a terminal window, and is pretty damned stable, but mangles sites and doesn't support a slew of things: frames, ssl, cookies, java, javascript. Opera is also frequently mentioned as light, featureful, and standards-compliant, but is non-free. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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