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#1 2009-04-22 15:48:44

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Registered: 2009-04-22
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Firefox Alternative

Hi, I'm looking for a lightweigth web browser. Firefox is too heavy for me, and  if  I left open a long time, it starts eating memory, with no limit. Yesterday, I went out just 2 hours, and when I came, it has 500 mb (Just two tabs open, with tiny pages).
I'm using LXDE and don't want to install all the GNOME or KDE stuff, so Epiphany and Konqueror were rule out. . In the office (Windows) I use K-meleon, that for me it's the best browser of all, but i doesn't have linux version (just some unofficial version that needs wine to execute)

¿Anyone knows an alternative?




PD: Text mode browsers are not welcome!! smile
PPDD: Dillo is not welcome too!!:D

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#2 2009-04-22 15:51:36

Inxsible
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Registered: 2008-06-09
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Re: Firefox Alternative

Kazehakase - lightwieght
Amaya - never used it, so I don't know how it is.
Midori - lightweight, but buggy still
Opera - you would probably need qt for this, which is a bit heavy. but if you use skype, you probably have it installed already.
Flock - but this is based on Firefox, so it might not be what you want. I do not know how heavy or light it is. But considering that it adds social networking stuff in the browser, I would say it would more hinder my use of a browser than help me.


I know you said no text mode -- but you could try out links-g which is graphical - but you start it via the terminal. There is a w3m-graphical in aur as well and of course elinks

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#3 2009-04-22 16:32:47

thoffmeyer
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Registered: 2006-07-27
Posts: 91

Re: Firefox Alternative

Dillo, or Dillo 2.1-hg..

Dillo is blazing, and it's lightweight and fast.

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#4 2009-04-22 16:39:13

Skripka
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Registered: 2009-02-19
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Re: Firefox Alternative

I'd recommend Arora on the repos, it is a Qt version of Midori...but it is more stable and feature full than Midori-IMHO and is quite good for normal daily use....of course it depends on having Qt though.

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#5 2009-04-22 16:43:54

skottish
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Re: Firefox Alternative

If Firefox is eating 500MB of any kind of RAM with two tabs open, there's something wrong with one or more of your extensions.

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#6 2009-04-22 17:00:31

flush
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Re: Firefox Alternative

I don't have any extension installed.

¿Any version of Dillo suport javascript, css, flash etc?

I'll try Midori, and Kazehakase, and may be Arora. Thanks!!

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#7 2009-04-22 17:05:57

Nezmer
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Re: Firefox Alternative

Midori is stable enough these days (posted from Midori) .


English is not my native language .

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#8 2009-04-22 22:16:20

Army
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Registered: 2007-12-07
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Re: Firefox Alternative

You could give the beta of FF 3.1 a chance, can be found in the AUR as firefox-pgo-beta. In my opinion FF 3.1 will be a lot better and the beta is already really stable here. I keep switching between Midori and FF 3.1-beta, both have their pros and contras, watching Midori grow is really great, but using FF 3.1 is really great, best FF I've ever used.

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#9 2009-04-23 17:16:43

aqamar
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Registered: 2008-09-01
Posts: 49

Re: Firefox Alternative

The midori-git i use and is very stable, or try arora too

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#10 2009-04-23 18:01:49

jwcxz
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Registered: 2008-09-23
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Re: Firefox Alternative

I've been using the latest Opera 10 development snapshot with native QT4 libraries and it works like a charm (after I solved some color compatibility issues).  It's much more responsive than Firefox and loads almost immediately.

The only thing I use Firefox for nowadays is FireBug.  Opera has Dragonfly, but I like FireBug a little more.


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