Comments on: Lightweight Browser Rundown

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:02:52 +0000

@ Luke Maciak: Petr Baudis is the creator of Elinks

By: Just browsing, thanks

Just browsing, thanks — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:33:11 +0000

[…] I just tried two different browsers on that computer. I checked out this list, which was linked-to among the first results of a Google search I did. The first one I tried out […]

By: fie

fie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:50:00 +0000

You might want to update your article.

Kazehakase does pluggable rendering engines and supports gecko and webkit.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:00:22 +0000

uzbl
http://www.uzbl.org/

By: AchubaNanoiaBR

AchubaNanoiaBR — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:08:09 +0000

I know this post is 2 years old, but even still I’d like to congratulate you! As a new Linux user I found this very helpful. Thank your time in sharing this with everyone.

By: tdrusk

tdrusk — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:35:14 +0000

Great write up. I have been using Dillo and Iceweasel(Debian Firefox). I think both run pretty light and stable . I think Firefox has an advantage because it is full featured and doesn’t have any memory leaks(to my knowledge).

By: Luke Maciak

Luke Maciak — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:09:23 +0000

@doorknob60 – I didn’t know about this one. Will need to check it out. Thanks for the tip!

By: doorknob60

doorknob60 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:53:55 +0000

You missed a really nice one, skipstone. It’s based on gecko so it can render pretty much anything, and I find it faster than Kasekahaze. I’m running on my laptop wth Fluxbuntu 7.10 with only 64 MB of RAM and a 400 Mhz CPU, so I really need a lightweight browser, and skipstone is my favorite so far.

Home Page: http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/
Ubuntu Packages: http://getdeb.net/app/SkipStone

By: Starhawk

Starhawk — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:24:14 +0000

Yeah you’re right Luke. that is of course the way they intend ya to use it. I recently found out about it and kind of like it because i can play pandora without tying up a tab in FF. Pandora affects FF responsiveness on my system, alot I might add. In windows I use a separate app for it but it still slows FF down. I like prism on buntu because it has a minimal effect on how FF acts. Some effect because of the CPU usage, but it is a good solution to playing pandora in a separate app in linux. ;)

As to the icon thing I would prefer some choice as to where it puts the icon or even the option of not having one, just entering the url as happens when ya open prism by itself. Pretty neat little app tho, gotta love mozilla!

By: Luke Maciak

Luke Maciak — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:07:43 +0000

I guess it’s not really supposed to be a browser. It’s supposed to be a tool for integrating online apps into your desktop. So for example if you click on a word document it launches prism, uploads the file into Google Docs and loads it there.

I’m guessing this is why it has that weird behavior with the icons. :P