Midori (XFCE) is based on Webkit - and is fast *and* lightweight *and* fully-featured
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 87.114.166.113]
on November 05, 2008 02:28 PM
Although webkit comes in at a whopping 10mb on its own, browsers based on it are blindingly quick, small and fully-featured. Midori is one such browser.
So, unless you're _truly_ looking for that completely cut-down experience...
And there is one other option - again, webkit-based: the demobrowser.py that's in pywebkitgtk. Whilst it may sound strange - to run python as a web browser - it's actually very much "hands-off". PyWebkitGtk is purely a "wrapper" around the GTK widget that webkit sits in: there's no actual "python" being executed - at all - in the rendering. the only times that python gets involved is in loading of urls, interacting with the back / forward / go buttons, displaying a console dialog, that sort of thing.
and those are all done using pygtk2 - so if you don't _like_ the way that the browser looks, you get to edit it - yourself :)
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Midori (XFCE) is based on Webkit - and is fast *and* lightweight *and* fully-featured
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 87.114.166.113] on November 05, 2008 02:28 PMSo, unless you're _truly_ looking for that completely cut-down experience...
And there is one other option - again, webkit-based: the demobrowser.py that's in pywebkitgtk. Whilst it may sound strange - to run python as a web browser - it's actually very much "hands-off". PyWebkitGtk is purely a "wrapper" around the GTK widget that webkit sits in: there's no actual "python" being executed - at all - in the rendering. the only times that python gets involved is in loading of urls, interacting with the back / forward / go buttons, displaying a console dialog, that sort of thing.
and those are all done using pygtk2 - so if you don't _like_ the way that the browser looks, you get to edit it - yourself :)
lkcl.
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