From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 8 02:53:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC2316A4CE for ; Sat, 8 May 2004 02:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4744D43D49 for ; Sat, 8 May 2004 02:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@chvlva.adelphia.net) Received: from default.chvlva.adelphia.net ([69.160.64.49]) by mta10.adelphia.netESMTP <20040508095307.XFBJ8065.mta10.adelphia.net@default.chvlva.adelphia.net>; Sat, 8 May 2004 05:53:07 -0400 Received: by default.chvlva.adelphia.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F068655D3; Sat, 8 May 2004 05:54:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 05:54:01 -0400 From: Parv To: Zhang Weiwu Message-ID: <20040508095401.GA15422@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Zhang Weiwu , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the most light weight X web browser? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 09:53:09 -0000 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 --