[desktop-discuss] Re: lightweight graphics options....

Garrett D'Amore garrett_damore at tadpole.com
Tue Oct 24 09:36:05 PDT 2006


Eric Boutilier wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Christian Kelly wrote:
>> ...
>> rm /usr/bin/firefox
>
> Although I can't speak from personal experience, I think Dillo is the
> leading lightweight browser these days. Three of the leading light-weight
> linux distros use it: Damn Small Linux, grml, and Feather Linux.
>
> Eric
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Hmm... Dillo seems to lack HTTP authentication support.  The version in
blastwave lacks https as well.  Possibly these could be addressed pretty
easily, to get dillo up to snuff for typical sysadmin tasks.  (Java plug
in support might be required, I don't know.)

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