It should be noted that the next version of Xubuntu includes Firefox 3 which is suppose to be faster and lighter.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Cody<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 16, 2008 9:56 AM, Charlie Kravetz <<a href="mailto:cjk@teamcharliesangels.com">cjk@teamcharliesangels.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:19 +0000, Vincent wrote:<br>
><br>><br>> On 16/02/2008, Mark Farnell <<a href="mailto:mark.farnell@gmail.com">mark.farnell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Currently Xubuntu is becoming more and more bulky and less<br>> suitable<br>
> for old machines, thus defeating the original purpose of<br>> Xubuntu. One<br>> of the contributor for the bulkiness (and slow running) is<br>> firefox.<br>> Would it be likely for firefox to be replaced by something<br>
> lighter<br>> such as kazahakase? Kazahakase is already used as the<br>> default<br>> browser in fluxbuntu and it is more stable than other<br>> lightweight<br>> browsers such as midori (webkit based). In fact I am writing<br>
> this<br>> email using kazahakase installed on my Xubuntu laptop.<br>><br>> What do you think?<br>><br>> I could not find a homepage of Kazahakase, but I very much appreciate<br>
> Epiphany and if it would change to WebKit it's a very liable option<br>> IMHO.<br>><br>><br>> Mark<br>><br>> Best,<br>> --<br>> Vincent<br><br></div></div>I can't tell where Kazahakase is in development at this point, but here<br>
is the home page:<br><a href="http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/" target="_blank">http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/</a><br><br>It is in english, although a little difficult to navigate. According to<br>the Fluxbuntu FAQ, "The version of Kazehakase included in Fluxbuntu uses<br>
the Gecko engine, the same engine powering Firefox." It can not use<br>firefox plugins and addons, though.<br><br>good luck,<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Charlie Kravetz<br>Linux Registered User Number 425914 [<a href="http://counter.li.org/" target="_blank">http://counter.li.org/</a>]<br>
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