What's the best browser in OpenBSD ?

[sw2wolf]

Now i am using FireFox which is a bit heavy. Are there any fast and light weight browser in OpenBSD 5.1 ?


Best Regards!

[ocicat]

Originally Posted by sw2wolf

Are there any fast and light weight browser in OpenBSD 5.1 ?

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.

[daemonfowl]

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 !!!

[sw2wolf]

Originally Posted by daemonfowl

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.
...

thanks for your information. It seems opera needs Linux emulation ? Maybe i should taste xxxterm if it eats little memory than firefox.

[IdOp]

Originally Posted by daemonfowl

Elinks/lynx/links ===> fast but 'anti-graphic' . unavoidable !

Actually, links has a graphical capability (but I haven't used it under OpenBSD).

My favourite is seamonkey, but lightweight it is not!

[hitest]

Originally Posted by IdOp

My favourite is seamonkey, but lightweight it is not!

Agreed. Seamonkey would be my first choice, but, it is far too heavy for my system. I'm using Firefox.

[gpatrick]

NetSurf is another option and it is small and fast, but it doesn't have Javascript support.

[Beastie]

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.

[daemonfowl]

hi @hitest !
I've just installed seamonkey & it seems faster than firefox and you can still enjoy addons etc

[hitest]

Originally Posted by daemonfowl

hi @hitest !
I've just installed seamonkey & it seems faster than firefox and you can still enjoy addons etc

Yes. When Seamonkey is up and running it is very responsive. However, for me Seamonkey uses far more system resources on my old OpenBSD 5.1 box than FF. When I run Seamonkey my CPU use, according to top, is very high compared to FF.
I am happy to hear that Seamonkey meets your needs.

[daemonfowl]

Thanks.
So , OpenBSD bid xxxterm a sad farewell ?

[ocicat]

Originally Posted by daemonfowl

So , OpenBSD bid xxxterm a sad farewell ?

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.

[daemonfowl]

Thanks for the info , ocicat !
Happy to learn about Xombrero .. less porn-suggestive and more Hispanic a name
:-)