Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 02:28:32 -0700 From: Roop Nanuwa <roop.nanuwa@gmail.com> To: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the most light weight X web browser? Message-ID: <75f3f705040508022859a9489c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com> References: <409CA6A0.3010503@realss.com>
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On Sat, 08 May 2004 17:21:36 +0800, Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> wrote: > > Hello. My friend is running a tea house, she want to put her ancient > Pentium 100 notebook (24MB memory) running FreeBSD 4.9, on the bar so > customers can use it check mails and browse the web. (and I want to help > her.) She want it to just function as a browser machine, she don't even > need a window manager, the X starts up just to run a browser. (However a > memory saving window manager is okay, too. Take a look at Opera. It is extremely lightweight in both size, memory footprint and CPU usage. It also has a built-in kiosk mode which would probably be perfectly suited for use in the tea house. It's under www/opera and www/opera-devel. --roop
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