[ale] Browser recommendation? Small and fast a must.
Charles Shapiro
charles.shapiro at nubridges.com
Tue Sep 10 14:30:56 EDT 2002
Well heck,you could just grit your teeth and pay the $39 or so to
register your browser.
The registration moves with the .opera directory, at least with 5.0, so
you only need to do this once even if you use it on multiple different
machines.
-- CHS
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 14:02, Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> Looking for some advice here.
>
> I have been running Vector Linux on my tiny, ancient
> laptop, for a while now and like it for the small
> footprint, not much bulkware, etc. Based on Slackware,
> Vector Linux is small, like Peanut Linux only does
> things a little different. Instead of lots of
> binaries/no libraries like Peanut, Vector is the
> opposite, more libraries fewer binaries. Which is
> great, because I can compile my own stuff and only have
> to track down 2 to 12 libraries for every installed
> piece of software ;D.
>
> Anyway, the default (graphics) browser used to be an
> old version of netscape. It was slow on my poor old
> laptop, but ran OK. Now it is Opera. I would have no
> problem with the banner ad support, except that on a
> 640*480 disply the Banner takes up 50% of my screen
> real estate, which is just unacceptable. There is no
> way the hardware can handle big bulky browsers like a
> modern Netscape, Mozilla,
>
> Does anybody have experience with the new graphic
> version of the Links browser? How about Dillo?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Grimmke
> Marietta, Georgia
>
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