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What's the best browser in OpenBSD ?
Now i am using FireFox which is a bit heavy. Are there any fast and light weight browser in OpenBSD 5.1 ?
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There are at least eight browsers to be found in the www directory. My suggestion would be to search for the word "browser", & experiment with your findings.
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Hi sw2wolf !
dillo ===> superfast but no unicode support. I love it ! xxxterm ===> BSD-spirit , promising but still in early developement stages. I love it ! Elinks/lynx/links ===> fast but 'anti-graphic' . unavoidable ! opera ===> fast enough +useful features/widgets , but closed source, sadly . I use it. chromium ===> insecure and privacy enemy ! I avoid google's pandora's boxes. w3m ===> text-based +tables & frames rendering conkeror ===> for keyboard-lovers & mouse-haters .. ion users .. Arora ? Konqueror (kde) ? epiphany (gnome) ? Firefox is most popular with many useful addons and extensions but the more you install some the more it gets slower. Finally , Many thanks to the OpenBSD Team for offering us such a variety of web browsers to be used on their wonderful OS !!! |
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NetSurf is another option and it is small and fast, but it doesn't have Javascript support.
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And in the same spirit of xxxterm you can also try vimprobable.
It's not available in the ports but you can easily compile it yourself (so small it takes seconds on old hardware). It has a fairly good JavaScript support and you can even add tab support through tabbed.
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hi @hitest !
I've just installed seamonkey & it seems faster than firefox and you can still enjoy addons etc |
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I am happy to hear that Seamonkey meets your needs.
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Thanks.
So , OpenBSD bid xxxterm a sad farewell ? |
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No, the name has simply changed:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cv...7892525429&w=2 When it comes to information about ports, reading the ports@ & ports-changes@ mailing lists is essential. |
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Thanks for the info , ocicat !
Happy to learn about Xombrero .. less porn-suggestive and more Hispanic a name :-) Last edited by daemonfowl; 22nd June 2012 at 08:55 PM. |
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I know this topic is a bit old, but browsers change with time...
After having dug through above recommendations: Is there (meanwhile) something like Dillo (great browser, actually) with HTML5 support? Even DuckDuckGo is displayed horribly wrong. |
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Dillo is a third party package and is not affiliated to OpenBSD in any shape or form. Whatever latest stable release Dillo supports should work on OpenBSD. I would be very, very surprised that Dillo supports HTML5 or anything beyond HTML 4.01 for that matter.
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I know that it's third-party, but that doesn't invalidate my question if there is something like Dillo with a better engine...
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Unfortunately IIRC JavaScript support was hit and miss if available at all so I have given up and went back to Opera at that time. Last edited by Oko; 15th February 2014 at 01:43 AM. |
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Of course, that doesn't help anyone today. But I'm fond of reminding people that they should be the change they want to see |
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