Re: Light web browser for old PC
On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 03:52:36PM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> On 07/02/2015 02:25 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >Displaying images or not has very few things related to the browser heavyness
> >and celerity/velocity. What the OP asked for is a lightweitght browser
> >(memory footprint) and potentially velocity in rendering pages (CPU cycle
> >usage).
> >I thought downloading images slowed down a lot...
>
> If downloading images slows down, then it is the download which is slow. Not
> the browser.
>
> >
> >Thanks to listers for all the suggestions. But with Dillo, Lynx, w3m, Netsurf,
> >with all of them I have the same problem: I can't access my e-mail account on
> >www.libero.it: when I try to, I'm redirected on the previous page. Please
> >anybody knows why and how to fix that?
> >
>
> Change the user agent of the browser your using to match some Firefox one.
> Check http://whatsmyuseragent.com/CommonUserAgents
Not possible with netsurf, it's a hard coded. You're better to try and
contact the webmaster and get it changed anyway.
http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/plain/Docs/PACKAGING-GTK
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