Browser?

The Orange Peanut · 2008-03-08 04:51:33

Hi. I just installed Arch onto my older PC that I have at my parents house (I live in my college town, I'm in for the weekend). Well, I have managed to get XFCE installed and running. Before I do anything else, I want to get a real browser working so I can continue setting up my installation... I'm currently using Links and it isn't fun to use when trying to follow instructions .

I was hoping to use Kazehakase because it is a very lightweight browser, but it appears it isn't in the repos? Or if it is I can't find it. Can anyone tell me if it is, or if it isn't, what is a good alternative? My machine is a P3 450mhz with 384MB of ram, so lightweight is better... would rather stay away from Firefox and Opera.

Advice?

vogt · 2008-03-08 05:01:06

firefox3 is pretty fast (a great improvement over 2), and it's in the unstable repo. It works pretty fast for me on similar hardware.

EDIT: What's so bad about links in particular anyways?

Last edited by vogt (2008-03-08 05:02:35)

elgatofelix · 2008-03-08 05:03:26

opera beats them all , even if it eats more memory it still feels lighter even with with more than 10 tabs

perlluver · 2008-03-08 05:23:19

kazehakase is in the repos. pacman -S kazehakase.

Edit: or try epiphany.

Last edited by perlluver (2008-03-08 05:26:45)

The Orange Peanut · 2008-03-08 05:35:11

Okay, I guess I'll give firefox 3 a try, but how do I add the unstable repo to my available repos? When I first installed, /etc/pacman.d contained text files for EACH repo, but after updating pacman there is only mirrorlist. How do I add the unstable repo so I can install FF3?

The Orange Peanut · 2008-03-08 05:42:25

Ah, okay, I got kazehakase. How come when I searched the repos (core, extra, testing, unstable) from the main arch page it didn't show up? Not entirely sure I understand how Arch repos work yet (I normally run Linux Mint).

Thanks for the help guys

perlluver · 2008-03-08 05:46:11

The Orange Peanut wrote:

Ah, okay, I got kazehakase. How come when I searched the repos (core, extra, testing, unstable) from the main arch page it didn't show up? Not entirely sure I understand how Arch repos work yet (I normally run Linux Mint).
Thanks for the help guys

They work differently then the Mint or Ubuntu repos.

skottish · 2008-03-08 06:24:24

The Orange Peanut wrote:

Ah, okay, I got kazehakase. How come when I searched the repos (core, extra, testing, unstable) from the main arch page it didn't show up? Not entirely sure I understand how Arch repos work yet (I normally run Linux Mint).
Thanks for the help guys

Assuming that you got the spelling right, it's a "community" package. Those don't show up on the Arch main page. If you search the AUR page, you'll find it (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2075). To know it's in the repos, there is a "CVS" link towards the bottom above the comments.

Community packages are trusted. They've been either tested by one or more of the developers or the person that submitted it is known to be trustworthy. You can uncomment out community in both your repositories files (for downloads) and your ABS file for build directories safely.

Last edited by skottish (2008-03-08 06:31:36)

stefan1975 · 2008-03-08 11:12:26

hi,

for FF3 you should enable [unstable] by editing the /etc/pacman.conf as root

$ sudo vi /etc/pacman.conf

uncomment the unstable section so that i looks like this:

# Unstable is disabled by default.  To enable, uncomment the following
# two lines.  You can add preferred servers immediately after the header,
# and they will be used before the default mirrors.
[unstable]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

then install FF3:

$sudo pacman -Sy firefox3

FF3 is great although a bit dated, beta5 is out and this still is beta3, you can also get the latest beta from the mozilla site and on my widescreen the fonts/pixels suck unless i edit them manually in about:config

epiphany is Way faster but less userfriendly imho, opera 9.5 will be awesome but it looks so crappy in XFCE

stefan

Last edited by stefan1975 (2008-03-08 11:14:39)

phisphere · 2008-03-08 11:35:37

Epiphany is a great lightweight browser. It uses the same engine as firefox and gtk toolkit (works great in gnome and xfce).
I haven't tried firefox 3 yet, because I prefer stable releases.

stefan1975 · 2008-03-08 12:39:32

phisphere wrote:

Epiphany is a great lightweight browser. It uses the same engine as firefox and gtk toolkit (works great in gnome and xfce).
I haven't tried firefox 3 yet, because I prefer stable releases.

now it uses the same engine as FF but I am really looking forward to testing the new epiphany that uses the WebKit backend, from what I have heard that is really promising. I believe they will ship it with the new Ubuntu, although the default engine will still be Gecko.

stefan

Rasi · 2008-03-10 15:21:59

yes, epiphany uses the same engine as firefox, but still many sites work only in the latter... for me no flash sites work in epiphany and lots of other make the browser crash everytime..

miggols99 · 2008-03-10 16:04:44

You might want to look at my web browser recommendations:

http://archux.com/page/application-recommendations

Personally I'd recommend Kazehakaze. But at the moment I am loving Opera

dyscoria · 2008-03-10 16:28:09

miggols99 wrote:

But at the moment I am loving Opera

aaaarghh proprietary!

* throws up *

* then realises he's using official nvidia drivers *

* throws up *

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