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Query: what's best low-profile WWW gui-UA for Debian?



Hi folks,

I have set up a system based on a Cyrix P120+ cpu and 96 MB RAM, not
huge gobs of free hdd space either. I have (just yesterday...) got X11R6
(XFree86) installed. Using the stable XFree86 v4 release. I have got
some X client apps set up, like Knews and so on.

I am trying to keep some of the bloat away, both in terms of installed
disk space consumption and RAM use. Anyway, my X configuration thus is
what i think to be "minimalistic" to a degree, i.e. no desktop manager,
just icewm overseeing things. I like ice.

I have thus far been using lynx for visiting HTML data. I'd like to move
to a graphical browser. I seek input, insight, well-formed informed
opinions about which graphical WWW ua package to install or build (I am
not afraid of my cc ...). Which should it be? Who requires the least
additional prerequisite packages above and beyond xlibs, I guess, and
maybe the Athena widget set, maybe ... can Mozilla be built in a modest
configuration or is it a hog? Opera (I know, non-free software ...)?
Netscape?

I like pretty pictures, full PNG support is the one thing I won't
compromise on if I can possibly avoid it.

I suppose a few readers must have formed opinions on this subject...
please speak to me. I welcome CC:s on this topic.

   Happy Debian Slave,
      Soren Andersen
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