Xubuntu: questions

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:04:52 +0200
"Luca Manganelli" <luca76 at gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]
> - and a light web browser? I tried Firefox and Opera, but I'm not too
> satisfied with them.

There do not seem to be any "mid range" browsers between the fast, light
and spartan ones and the "do everything" ones, as far as I know.

Two browsers worthy of experiment are dillo ( mentioned by Lorin) and
links2 , which is capable of graphical display using the -g switch thus:

links2 -g http://google.com   ( or whatever )

Both are packaged for Ubuntu, and in the universe repository.

Dillo is limited, but more "normal" than "links2 -g " - both are very light
on resources, and useful for searches, local html documents and general
browsing that does not require https:// , java, and other frills like
download managers etc. Both start very fast - "links2 -g" practically
instantly, dillo in a second or two. The rendering can be a bit ... quirky
at times on anything but simple pages, and you will run into javascript
issues.

You won't be able to do your banking with them, for instance, or buy
things on line.

I wish someone would come up with a real alternative that runs well on old
machines, and has a few features more than these, but I find that epiphany,
galeon and friends are not much lighter on resources than firefox.
Strangely enough the full "mozilla" browser (without the mail client,
editor etc etc) sometimes works best on old boxes, I've noticed. Don't ask
me why...

Peter