Just wanting Members Opinions on what lite browsers excluding firefox/seamonkey/chrome
they use in 13/current and where they got it?(sbopkg,etc)

Firefox and Seamonkey keep crashing and I cant figure out why

Midori and Dillo run well and was wonderinn what other browsers are available?
thanks

Hi

W3m, links...

lighter than this u will not find...

BRGDS

Alex

I started using Chrome a few weeks back and really like it. It starts up *much* faster on my old laptop than firefox or opera ever have done.

My advice is give it a spin - it's on slackbuilds.org

lynx?

opera for slackware is avaliable from operas website and if you dont have a fast connection it switches into turbomode,but i wouldnt call it lite.

elinks

firefox is crashing in my slackware current as well.

I use vimprobable2 which is just about the lightest graphical browser you can find (I don't really count links -g as graphical though it technically is), and it uses webkit so it renders pages fairly well and quickly. I have heard uzbl is a little better but it had a serious security issue (which is now plugged but has reduced functionality). I'm not sure if they have figured out how to recover functoinality while avoiding that security issue but the latest development version should be secure and at least as functional as vimprobable2, so I will likely give it a shot in a bit. It should be noted that you need a relatively recent webkit and if you're using stable you need to upgrade gtk+2. It should also be noted that newer webkit than the version used at slackbuilds.org requires a newer libsoup as well, but you would need to use libsoup 2.28.2 at most -- unless it was fixed recently newer webkit cannot compile against anything newer than that. I guess it is a lot of work just for a lightweight browser but I have migrated fully from Firefox to vimprobable2 and only jump back for sites that do not render properly (which are relatively few) or banking, where I feel more comfortable using a supported browser (Firefox). The lightweight webkit browsers have the advantage of using HTML5 video with the h.264 codec (using gst-plugins-* with gstreamer), which Firefox cannot do.

havent got chrome to work on slack,firefox is stable for me.

@linus72 & hughszg

Before you give up on ff/sm, have you run them from a terminal for crash clues? Any other debugging?

Just curious....

cheers,

Swiftfox

http://getswiftfox.com/

Depends on your definition of light. If you just mean small and fast, Midori is pretty good, has a slackbuild at Slackbuilds.org, and uses Webkit so it's buzzword compliant.

i use google chrome, i got it from slacky.eu
i think it is faster than firefox and nowadays chrome also has many extensions

I use Firefox because of the plugins I use, however I consider Chrome and Opera very strong alternatives, especially if you are looking for a fast and light browser.

Would say Opera is my personal favorite

Checking out swiftfox

I guess I need firefox installed to have it or what?

mrclisdue;
I did a upgrade to slack current and seamonky keepes crashing
no idea why
firefox still freaks out if I hit the X instead of using "quit" under "file"
dont know why..