Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 05:54:01 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the most light weight X web browser? Message-ID: <20040508095401.GA15422@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com> References: <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com>
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in message <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com>, wrote Zhang Weiwu thusly... > > she want to put her ancient Pentium 100 notebook (24MB memory) > running FreeBSD 4.9, ... She want it to just function as a browser > machine, she don't even need a window manager Ion, treewm, or tvtwm should be enough for a window manager if really want one. (Oh, my favourite is FVWM, from fvwm-devel port, currently 2520 kB resident set size, 3336 kB virtual size, 4476 KB disk.) > Perhaps Epiphany is the only choice? If so can we make it even > lighter? I have not tried Epiphany; its default long dependency list sure is scary. Looking inside the Makefile it seems if you delete/comment out "if defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING)..." block, the actual list would be quite reduced. Hopefully there is enough space to install both mozilla & epiphany. If not, all the non essential mozilla files can be deleted. Going only on the default dependency list, Mozilla w/ GTK v1, from mozilla-gtk1 port, would be smaller at least on disk; can't say about memory requirements as i have never checked while it runs. Have you checked Netscape, Firefox or Opera? I suppose a text browser either w/ image, w3m-img, and/or JavaScript support would not cut it? - Parv --
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