On 2015-07-28, li...@wrant.com wrote:
> What is the best and lightest browser...
Dillo is generally good, with Firefox for heavy sites.
Seconded. The "default browser" concept is most probably not a good
idea (read a bad idea) for any OS.
There is no such thing as best, but for lightest:
Dillo is very fast lightweight and almost always renders correct the
proper sites, and has no JavaScript vulnerabilities (for now). Helps
read web pages daily.
The ftp(1) works great for command line client, used daily.
Any opinions on w3m as an alternative to the much debated lynx for
casual text mode browsing?
I use w3m daily and heavily for browsing most basic web pages or if I just want
to read text content when the look/layout of a page is not necessary for me.
It handles cookies if you want it to, with easy cookie management. Has tabs,
but doesn't remember sessions (unless you are using the w3m Emacs plugin, which
I have never tried). I also use it to browse directories that have a lot of
HTML files, like my book and web archive collections. I've used its "external
browser" functions to attach URL yanking to keybinds (hint: define a "browser"
as xsel), which is handy.
It has an image mode which seems to be pretty hackish and has never worked
smoothly for me, at least running rxvt with tmux. I use it rarely, and instead
use the program's mailcap file to define an image viewer, and view images
externally by selecting them and hitting a keybind.
Some of the features and options can be difficult to discover or decipher due
partly to the state of the English documentation (author is Japanese). Maybe
someday when I find more time I can contribute to the documentation, and maybe
one day, the code.
Seconding Dillo for a quick, no-nonsense graphical browser. And of course there
is always surf[1].
[1] http://surf.suckless.org
-Brendan
