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Opinions on lightweight browsers
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: tinypoodle on April 06, 2011, 12:00:03 PM ---Just to get a quick indication of size, I squashed the binary, which results in 18MB of size.
[NOTE: Such is not an optimal working solution, as QtWeb for portability reason by default places all dynamic user profile files into same dir as which the binary is run from, and of course that needs to be writable. It seems otherwise /tmp is used for dynamic files.]
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On further examination...
If QtWeb is symlinked into $PATH, and then just called by executable name, it seems to place all dynamic user profile files into pwd ::)
Ulysses_:
Remains to be seen how fast it is then, this QTWeb browser, compared with opera.
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: Ulysses_ on April 13, 2011, 03:36:54 AM ---Remains to be seen how fast it is then, this QTWeb browser, compared with opera.
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Both feel fast enough for me what concerns speed of operation.
I could not compare initial startup speed, as QtWeb would start with homepage, while when starting opera I would either have to agree to the EULA or continue with last session, so it would depend how many minutes it takes on how many hundreds of tabs open in how many windows :P
ali:
--- Quote from: Ulysses_ on April 04, 2011, 03:11:48 PM ---Just made a list of all lightweight graphical browsers available. Has anyone got experience with any of them or opinions?
dillo
chimera2
arora
links
midori
dooble
netsurf
surf
How do they compare with supposedly fast chrome-based ones below?
iron (chrome minus the tracking)
chromium
chrome
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off topic, you might want to read the Why no one should use the „Iron“ Chromium fork article
back on topic: i tried dillo, qtbrowser and midori, midori seamed really nice but it was misbehaving
in the end i got so used to the chromium features that i can't live without them
i tried setting up firefox like chromium but it missbehaved so i came back
mpayne:
Dillo is really nice though there are some issues concerning compatibility with other web sites. Though the experience could be at par, if not even better, than Firefox and other browsers in my opinion.
I would like to see this as a full blown but still light weight browser. I am not sure though if that would still be light on computing resources.
I do not like Chrome as well.
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