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From: Whirled.Peas on 1 Mar 2010 07:23
The Linux Ware Weekly #2

Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce
Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various
tasks. Each week I plan to bring you a list of applications that are
suited to a certain task. I don't guarantee that the lists will be
exhaustive by any stretch. In fact I can guarantee that I will probably
overlook several applications since there are so many different programs
written for Linux and forks upon forks of the popular ones.

This week we will be looking at web browsers. You are probably already
quite familiar with Firefox, Opera, Konqueror and Google's Chrome, so we
won't be discussing those. Instead we'll look at a few “obscure”
browsers, both for the GUI set and for those who prefer or have need to
use text-based browsers.


GUI Browsers:

Epiphany
License: GPL
Homepage: http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/
The only reason I am mentioning Epiphany (since I am ignoring Konqueror)
is because it scores 100/100 on the acid3 test and is so much faster than
Firefox or the other heavier browsers. Epiphany is the default browser
for Gnome.

A couple other lightweight alternatives are Galeon (http://
galeon.sourceforge.net/) and Dillo (http://www.dillo.org/)

Midori
License: Lesser GPL
Homepage: http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html
Acid3 test: 100/100
Midori is fast. Blazingly fast. It uses webkit rendering and is GTK+2
compatible, so it will pick up your system theme (assuming you are
running a GTK based theme in your window manager or desktop environment).
The program has a small footprint (2.5 megabytes), so it will perform
well where resources are tight.

Kazehakase
License: GPL2
Homepage: http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/
Acid3 test: 94/100
Kazehakase is a small, fast, lightweight browser that uses the Gecko
layout engine and also utilizes WebkitGTK+. It is much lighter than
Firefox, however it does not have all the plug-ins and add-ons that are
available with Firefox. It supports mouse gestures.

Uzbl
License: GPL3
Homepage: http://www.uzbl.org/
Acid3 test: 100/100
Uzbl-browser uses the WebkitGtk+ engine for rendering. It is incredibly
small, installing (with dependencies) at just over 1 megabyte. Uzbl is
designed to be keyboard driven, making it ideal for tiling window manager
environments. It is the lightest of the browsers thus far listed and
consequently is the fastest at loading pages. Uzbl was originally
designed only for Arch Linux, but has been ported over to several other
distros.

Arora
License: GPL2
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/arora/
Acid3 Test: 100/100
From the project page: Arora is a lightweight cross-platform web browser.
It's free (as in free speech and free beer). Arora runs on Linux,
embedded Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows, Haiku, and any other
platforms supported by the Qt toolkit.
Arora uses the QtWebKit port of the fully standards-compliant WebKit
layout engine. It features fast rendering, powerful JavaScript engine and
supports Netscape plugins. Apart from the must-have features such as
bookmarks, history and tabbed browsing Arora boasts: A very fast start
up, Full integration with desktop environments, session management,
privacy mode, a download manger and several other features.

Hv3
License: BSD Revised
Homepage: http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/hv3.html
Hv3 is a cross-platform web browser with support for modern web standards
like HTML, CSS, HTTP and ECMAScript (a.k.a. Javascript). For Linux, the
program is a single binary weighing in at 3.2 megabytes. On my netbook it
is very fast and responsive. The website notes that it is still in
development (at the alpha stage) but the current build is quite
functional now. By default, no data is saved to your hard disc. This
ensures a completely private browsing experience. You can enable a “state
file” which will save cookies and other bits of information if you don't
need to be quite so private.

Ozirion
License: GPL
Homepage: http://www.ozirion.net/index.html
From the project page: Ozirion is an experimental Web browser allowing
people and groups to improve their privacy on the Internet by hiding
their IP address through a network of virtual tunnels. The current
release of Ozirion relies on the Tor technology. It includes a built-in
Tor server and provides the ability to choose or ban countries in order
to use an IP address from a specific country. The Privoxy local proxy is
used for better privacy. Ozirion is totally independent from the Tor and
Privoxy projects.
The web pages offers a download of the current alpha release.

Woosh
License: ?
Homepage: http://trac.hackable1.org/trac/wiki/WooshBrowser
Woosh is a small footprint browser written with netbooks in mind. It is
very minimal and can take advantage of most of the limited screen space
available.


Text-based Browsers:

Lynx
License: GPL
Homepage: http://lynx.isc.org/
Lynx is a simple text-based browser navigable with the cursor keys. Page
links are numbered and can be jumped to using the appropriate number key.
It is very useful in a server environment where no X-windows system is
installed.

Links
License: GPL
Homepage: http://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/links/
Links is another text based browser, but it features menus, tables and
frames. Version 2, the Links2 project (http://links.twibright.com/) added
support for graphics via frame-buffer. It allows users to view graphical
content without need for X-windows. Links2 is very similar to w3m (http://
w3m.sourceforge.net/). Both allow graphical content to be displayed in
the terminal without the need for a graphical window manager or desktop
environment.




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If you try, you can envision peas on earth.
From: Dewey Edwards on 1 Mar 2010 08:52

On 01 Mar 2010 12:23:13 GMT, "Whirled.Peas" <peas(a)earth.org> wrote:

>The Linux Ware Weekly #2

Once again, thank you. I currently have just a laptop, but hopefully
before summer I will get a *real* one, with virtual box etc.

Your newsletter is archived here.
\
>Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce
>Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various
>tasks. Each week I plan to bring you a list of applications that are
>suited to a certain task. I don't guarantee that the lists will be
>exhaustive by any stretch. In fact I can guarantee that I will probably
>overlook several applications since there are so many different programs
>written for Linux and forks upon forks of the popular ones.
>
>This week we will be looking at web browsers. You are probably already
>quite familiar with Firefox, Opera, Konqueror and Google's Chrome, so we
>won't be discussing those. Instead we'll look at a few �obscure�
>browsers, both for the GUI set and for those who prefer or have need to
>use text-based browsers.
>
>
>GUI Browsers:
>
>Epiphany
>License: GPL
>Homepage: http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/
>The only reason I am mentioning Epiphany (since I am ignoring Konqueror)
>is because it scores 100/100 on the acid3 test and is so much faster than
>Firefox or the other heavier browsers. Epiphany is the default browser
>for Gnome.
>
>A couple other lightweight alternatives are Galeon (http://
>galeon.sourceforge.net/) and Dillo (http://www.dillo.org/)
>
>Midori
>License: Lesser GPL
>Homepage: http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html
>Acid3 test: 100/100
>Midori is fast. Blazingly fast. It uses webkit rendering and is GTK+2
>compatible, so it will pick up your system theme (assuming you are
>running a GTK based theme in your window manager or desktop environment).
>The program has a small footprint (2.5 megabytes), so it will perform
>well where resources are tight.
>
>Kazehakase
>License: GPL2
>Homepage: http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/
>Acid3 test: 94/100
>Kazehakase is a small, fast, lightweight browser that uses the Gecko
>layout engine and also utilizes WebkitGTK+. It is much lighter than
>Firefox, however it does not have all the plug-ins and add-ons that are
>available with Firefox. It supports mouse gestures.
>
>Uzbl
>License: GPL3
>Homepage: http://www.uzbl.org/
>Acid3 test: 100/100
>Uzbl-browser uses the WebkitGtk+ engine for rendering. It is incredibly
>small, installing (with dependencies) at just over 1 megabyte. Uzbl is
>designed to be keyboard driven, making it ideal for tiling window manager
>environments. It is the lightest of the browsers thus far listed and
>consequently is the fastest at loading pages. Uzbl was originally
>designed only for Arch Linux, but has been ported over to several other
>distros.
>
>Arora
>License: GPL2
>Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/arora/
>Acid3 Test: 100/100
>From the project page: Arora is a lightweight cross-platform web browser.
>It's free (as in free speech and free beer). Arora runs on Linux,
>embedded Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows, Haiku, and any other
>platforms supported by the Qt toolkit.
>Arora uses the QtWebKit port of the fully standards-compliant WebKit
>layout engine. It features fast rendering, powerful JavaScript engine and
>supports Netscape plugins. Apart from the must-have features such as
>bookmarks, history and tabbed browsing Arora boasts: A very fast start
>up, Full integration with desktop environments, session management,
>privacy mode, a download manger and several other features.
>
>Hv3
>License: BSD Revised
>Homepage: http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/hv3.html
>Hv3 is a cross-platform web browser with support for modern web standards
>like HTML, CSS, HTTP and ECMAScript (a.k.a. Javascript). For Linux, the
>program is a single binary weighing in at 3.2 megabytes. On my netbook it
>is very fast and responsive. The website notes that it is still in
>development (at the alpha stage) but the current build is quite
>functional now. By default, no data is saved to your hard disc. This
>ensures a completely private browsing experience. You can enable a �state
>file� which will save cookies and other bits of information if you don't
>need to be quite so private.
>
>Ozirion
>License: GPL
>Homepage: http://www.ozirion.net/index.html
>From the project page: Ozirion is an experimental Web browser allowing
>people and groups to improve their privacy on the Internet by hiding
>their IP address through a network of virtual tunnels. The current
>release of Ozirion relies on the Tor technology. It includes a built-in
>Tor server and provides the ability to choose or ban countries in order
>to use an IP address from a specific country. The Privoxy local proxy is
>used for better privacy. Ozirion is totally independent from the Tor and
>Privoxy projects.
>The web pages offers a download of the current alpha release.
>
>Woosh
>License: ?
>Homepage: http://trac.hackable1.org/trac/wiki/WooshBrowser
>Woosh is a small footprint browser written with netbooks in mind. It is
>very minimal and can take advantage of most of the limited screen space
>available.
>
>
>Text-based Browsers:
>
>Lynx
>License: GPL
>Homepage: http://lynx.isc.org/
>Lynx is a simple text-based browser navigable with the cursor keys. Page
>links are numbered and can be jumped to using the appropriate number key.
>It is very useful in a server environment where no X-windows system is
>installed.
>
>Links
>License: GPL
>Homepage: http://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/links/
>Links is another text based browser, but it features menus, tables and
>frames. Version 2, the Links2 project (http://links.twibright.com/) added
>support for graphics via frame-buffer. It allows users to view graphical
>content without need for X-windows. Links2 is very similar to w3m (http://
>w3m.sourceforge.net/). Both allow graphical content to be displayed in
>the terminal without the need for a graphical window manager or desktop
>environment.

From: Wheel on 1 Mar 2010 15:10
Whirled.Peas wrote:
> The Linux Ware Weekly #2
>
> Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce
> Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various
> tasks.

[snip]

> This week we will be looking at web browsers.

[snip]

[snipped - program list]

Again, good stuff. When the time arrives, I'll have a mini reference
library. :)


Thank you.
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