i found this browser a little while ago, and it's pretty interesting. its at version 0.6.4, and not exactly complete by any stretch of the imagination, but it is FAST.
even galeon is pretty damn slow for me. people talk about it being fast, but they're just comparing it to mozilla. dillo doesnt exactly render everything right, AT forums have a tannish background color, and lots of little gif's and whatnot are left out, but certain pages actually look pretty good (usually the simple ones look good
)
also i notice it is more stable than galeon. sometimes if i have 3-10 or more tabs open in galeon, it slows to a crawl, and sometimes crashes. if you start it up and say "yes" to go back to where you were, it usually crashes again. so then you totally lose your place. (and that SUCKS when you have like 8 tabs open) but with dillo i can open up a bunch of windows (no tabs) and it just zips right along. and when opening it....it pretty much is done by the time i take my finger off the enter key from running it
anyways, just thought i'd share. i think dillo is somewhere in that grey area between lynx/links and galeon/mozilla/konqueror.
hopefully it will improve enough to be my main browser (wishful thinking but hey who knows)
all i can say is it is FAAAAAAST
(oh yeah, it is part of debian woody so you can just apt-get install dillo, or for others, it's at freshmeat.net)
even galeon is pretty damn slow for me. people talk about it being fast, but they're just comparing it to mozilla. dillo doesnt exactly render everything right, AT forums have a tannish background color, and lots of little gif's and whatnot are left out, but certain pages actually look pretty good (usually the simple ones look good
)also i notice it is more stable than galeon. sometimes if i have 3-10 or more tabs open in galeon, it slows to a crawl, and sometimes crashes. if you start it up and say "yes" to go back to where you were, it usually crashes again. so then you totally lose your place. (and that SUCKS when you have like 8 tabs open) but with dillo i can open up a bunch of windows (no tabs
) and it just zips right along. and when opening it....it pretty much is done by the time i take my finger off the enter key from running it anyways, just thought i'd share. i think dillo is somewhere in that grey area between lynx/links and galeon/mozilla/konqueror.
hopefully it will improve enough to be my main browser (wishful thinking but hey who knows)
all i can say is it is FAAAAAAST
(oh yeah, it is part of debian woody so you can just apt-get install dillo, or for others, it's at freshmeat.net)
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