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nadir

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## low-spec machines web-browsers

Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:01 pm

running my raspberry with X now i browse the Web (well, i try too).
raspbian installs midori, netsurf and dillo per default.
midori.
oh my fucking gawd,
It froze the desktop for fucking minutes.
finally it opens github.com,
i try to make my gist, and the submit button doesn't work.
I shouted in vain, for long, and then remembered netsurf
(dillo is top for speed, but not what i call nice or comfort).
netsurf doesn't freeze the desktop.
i can hit submit at github, the gist is there ... hurray.
Now i can't post the link at twitter ... ha ha ha.
So, to put something similar to a question here: Are there any other low-spec web-browser ? I recall kazehakaze, which was in refracta for a while. lynx is fine, but not if i need to copy and paste and do some other voodoo.
Second question: Looking for a client for twitter and perhaps identi.ca too. Main need is: easy and low on resources.
Short version: netsurf is cool. dillo too, but everyone knew that already (way way back, when jesus was a baby, dean had netsurf on one of his isos (refracta or not refracta then, i can't remember). I was not as uberl33t as am yet, but already liked it. Then completely forgot it.
k, let me check kaze.
oh: preload with 120 of RAM (out of box minus the one for graphic): makes sense or not?
nadir

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## Re: low-spec machines web-browsers

Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:12 pm

looking at twidge
i can tweet, and guess that is good enough for me.
(twidge setup to setup, twidge lsrecent to get recent tweets and twidge update to enter my own wisdom, More i don't need).
fsmithred

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## Re: low-spec machines web-browsers

Mon Jan 07, 2013 3:03 am

Kazehakase is not as light as Midori, I'm sure. I was gonna suggest w3m, but it's a lot like lynx. If you come across a recommendation to try Qupzilla because it's light on resources, don't bother. I tried it today, and it uses more ram than iceweasel (according to ps_mem.py). I've tried arora in the past, and that seemed pretty good (when it didn't crash). Maybe it's improved, and maybe it's not lightweight enough.
For posting a gist, there's a ruby script called gist that Telemachus recommended. According to the comments in the script, the source code is at http://github.com/defunkt/gist. I don't remember what we had to do to install it or get it to work, and it's probably been a year since I've used it.
nadir

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## Re: low-spec machines web-browsers

Mon Jan 07, 2013 3:34 am

As of now i am fine with netsurf and dillo.
Both are really snappy.
I purged midori. It's pointless.
From what you say i will not try kaze (and spare me the headaches).
I remember gist. At some point it failed for me, and i gave up on it. I think ruby was needed (?).
anticapitalista

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## Re: low-spec machines web-browsers

Mon Jan 07, 2013 2:39 pm

Give links2 a try. Can be used as cli or as gui with links2 -g option
nadir

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## Re: low-spec machines web-browsers

Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:13 pm

> anticapitalista wrote:Give links2 a try. Can be used as cli or as gui with links2 -g option

Okay.
I mainly look for gui solutions. lynx itself, + the tons of other apps with keyboard-shortcuts to remember, configs to be set etc, is already more than i can bare.
I ran into link2, more than once, and quite liked it (but forget things...).
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