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raptir

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Registered: 2009-09-16

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Secure, lightweight web browser?

I'm very happy with Chromium, and it even prompted me to try Chrome on my Windows machine, however I miss noscript from Firefox. Is there either an equivalent Chromium extension yet, or is there another browser that I could try that would be lighter weight than Firefox, but have similar selective script blocking functionality?

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

I think Midori and Kazehakase provide this feature and they are definitely lighter than Firefox.

Ronin-Sage

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 153

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Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

There's also Arora. It's Qt-based and one thing I really like about it is its built-in adblock list-manager/thing.

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Drake

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Registered: 2007-09-05

Posts: 41

Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

rekonq may be.. the progress of rekonq is going well.

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

Try uzbl You can install add-on scripts for it and customize the way you want. Its fast and lightweight. Also built by a fellow Archer. Head over to the Community Contributions section for the entire thread.

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arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

netsurf

Dieter@be

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Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

Try uzbl You can install add-on scripts for it and customize the way you want. Its fast and lightweight. Also built by a fellow Archer. Head over to the Community Contributions section for the entire thread.

well said! but it's built by *many* Archers and quite some non-Arch users also.

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Ronin-Sage

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Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

I think the point is that he/she want something lightweight, not barebones.

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Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

Try uzbl You can install add-on scripts for it and customize the way you want. Its fast and lightweight. Also built by a fellow Archer. Head over to the Community Contributions section for the entire thread.

well said! but it's built by *many* Archers and quite some non-Arch users also.

I stand corrected in that case.

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

Try uzbl You can install add-on scripts for it and customize the way you want. Its fast and lightweight. Also built by a fellow Archer. Head over to the Community Contributions section for the entire thread.

well said! but it's built by *many* Archers and quite some non-Arch users also.

Not to mention that Google hasn't figured out a "correction" for its name yet, so it's incredibly easy to search for information about...

Google: Did you mean Uzema?

Me: Shut up.

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

Not to mention that Google hasn't figured out a "correction" for its name yet, so it's incredibly easy to search for information about...

Google: Did you mean Uzema?

Me: Shut up.

Strange. I searched for uzbl in google and the first site listed is the uzbl.org one. And it doesn't offer any corrections at all.

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Dieter@be

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Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

I think the point is that he/she want something lightweight, not barebones.

uzbl comes in different flavors now.  uzbl-browser is "install and go".
Btw, being lightweight was never our primary goal but even uzbl-browser is much faster then the fox.

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grizzeledtop

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2006-03-08

Posts: 30

Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

installed "uzbl" and "tabbed" from AUR this morning, but can't get it to run. It flashes up very briefly and immediately exits with the following messages:

marmag@~ $ uzbl-browser &
[1] 6728

marmag@~ $ event_manager.py: will auto close.
event_manager.py: starting event manager.
{'bind.py': '/usr/share/uzbl/examples/data/uzbl/plugins',
 'config.py': '/usr/share/uzbl/examples/data/uzbl/plugins',
 'keycmd.py': '/usr/share/uzbl/examples/data/uzbl/plugins',
 'mode.py': '/usr/share/uzbl/examples/data/uzbl/plugins',
 'on_event.py': '/usr/share/uzbl/examples/data/uzbl/plugins',
 'plugin_template.py': '/usr/share/uzbl/examples/data/uzbl/plugins',
 'progress_bar.py': '/usr/share/uzbl/examples/data/uzbl/plugins'}
event_manager.py: entering daemon mode.

[1]+  Exit 1                  uzbl-browser

What have I forgotten ?

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grizzeledtop

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2006-03-08

Posts: 30

Re: Secure, lightweight web browser?

sorry everybody,

just found the the answer in the subsequent post. I am now trying to figure out how ot downgrade to the respective libwebkit. This is starting to get over the top of my head though.

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