On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:05:38PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > >>>>> "Heather" == Heather Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Heather> Galeon really is mozilla, different skin. Find me a way to use > Heather> less than all of Mozilla on low-quality systems (only 32 or 40 > Heather> MB of true RAM) and I'll be paying closer attention. > > You can try skipstone (http://muhri.net/skipstone/), also available as a > Debian package. It's another mozilla front end, but is much more > lightweight than Galeon, and only uses GTK+, not Gnome. Top reports it > as using "only" about 14MB (versus 29MB for Galeon), so it might be > usable on a low-memory system. I will try it again, but remain dubious; an additional problem is the lowmem laptops I try to do this for are usually also disk-space constrained, and unless the packaging game has changed you need more bits installed to get less browser, not an overall win unless you live in the browser.
Admittedly, some do. > Development seems to be slower than Galeon, but it should be sufficient > for basic browsing needs. It also seems to use native GTK+ scroll bars, > unlike Galeon (although I was under the impression that that was > impossible). If it behaves itself in javascript and can handle the java plugin everything else is gravy... na dthe gravy is probably pretty much there, if it handles generic plugins. GTK is kinda cool, lotsa zing for a low memory hit. There are a couple of GTK-based wm's too. * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
