Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
On February 27, 2004 07:17, Peter A. Cole wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering if anyone can suggest a lighter weight alternative to
> Mozilla Firebird?
>
> So far, I think Galeon may be similar to Firebird, but I think it
> will want Gnome installed, which I definitely don't want to run.
>
There's Skipstone, but for some reason it does not appear to be in the
Debian repository anymore, which is unfortunate since it appears to be
what you're after - Gecko rendering, uses gtk without Gnome and without
all the XUL overhead of Firefox and Mozilla. It also has a decent slate
of modern browsing features - tabbed browsing, bookmark toolbar,
downloading via wget, configuration of mail handlers, etc. It may have
been removed since there have been no apparent updates since June 2002
- just a few months before Phoenix (now Firefox) was first released...
http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/
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