On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 11:20, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On 21 Oct 2002 21:44:26 -0400 "Mark L. Kahnt" <kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org> > wrote: > > > Galeon requires the bulk of the mozilla packaging: mozilla-browser, > > because the pertinent parts (ie. Gecko) are not packaged separately as > > yet. Galeon is hence anything but minimalist, > > True. However, I challenge you to find a browser that is as (or more) > compliant/supported within the Debian package list that uses less system > resources to run. I'm not aware of one in the Debian package list. > Galeon does use less resources than Mozilla. Granted, you take up more > drive space, but if I have to choose between using a smaller portion of > CPU and Memory or more space on my HD, I choose the former. Personally, I > use Dillo and Phoenix. While Dillo is nice, fast and small it's still far > behind on support for many items. To be honest, I don't presume that software implementing anything broadly featured and varied in function as a browser to be as sleek and small in footprint as the CP/M kernel (4 KiB, iirc, although that only included five built-in user commands.) Comparing Phoenix and Galeon, both of which are carrying extra Mozilla code they aren't using, I find Phoenix *on my system* to be far more stable, honestly, but my experience is that Galeon has a way of repeatedly falling out of sync with Mozilla on my system, meaning it isn't available. Galeon also tends to open on my system *most of the time* observing that it hadn't exited the previous session properly - and that is true - the vast majority of times I've used Galeon, it eventually has crashed (as in under half an hour of moderate use.) Maybe that influences why I don't particularly like it, but I've also never seen the reported improvement in resource footprint relative to other browsers, particularly Konqueror if you already are using KDE - it just *seems* to me to be a different wrapper on the underlying browser. I would just not assert that it is minimalist, having used Mosaic and, back in my OS/2 era, IBM WebExplorer. > > > Anyhow, mozilla-browser *is* a Debian package, unless it was just yanked > > from the pools. > > Never claimed it wasn't. If you'll note, I did indicate that the mozilla > package pulled in mozilla-browser and others. > > -- > Jamin W. Collins -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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