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Old 14th February 2014
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Originally Posted by jkl View Post
Just to make things clear: I made the experience that WebKit is not really a fast component. My "platform-independent" main browser is Firefox, so I already have a "full-featured" product for that; on my rather weak and old-ish experimental OpenBSD machine it takes a couple of seconds to fully "boot up" though, so I'm just looking for a second browser for fast lookups, still having Firefox for a fallback.
I'm in the same boat, Firefox is the main, I use w3m for text-only mode. I can't seem to find anything satisfactory for lightweight graphical browsing, although both Dillo and Netsurf come close. Midori is not an option, also webkit, and very crashy, I my experience.
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