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[Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about Kazehakase which is a stripped down Firefox.

Firefox is a crappy browser once you try other stuff. The only thing I have
seen people sa yits great about is plugins which other browsers are now ok
with.

You failed to mention Arora which is webkit based and fully supports scipts
and ajax. I strongly advise you try it.
-Andy

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:18:06 -0000, Julián Alarcón <alarconj@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Some notes:
>
> Lubuntu is Ubuntu and free software, so, is not JUST for linux geeks,
> is for all "human beings".
> Lubuntu will be a light OS, so, no big resources. The main goal of
> Lubuntu is to bring Ubuntu to old PCs (here on Colombia many people
> (rural zones) use Pentium II + 256 of RAM + 10 GB DD + 1024x768 max.
> resolution), and, if we can give a complete experience to old
> computers, we'll score!!
>
> * Browse trough a Terminal? Lynx is completely out.
>
> * Chrome is NOT free software [1]
>
> * Chromium really is free software, but, Chromium is NOT a final
> browser,just a development branch, so.. Support for Chromium is
> unknown, but, Chromium is now on Lucid, so, maybe this won't be a
> problem.
>
> * Firefox is great, and Firefox 3.6 rulez! But, is not fast.
>
> * Midori is great, but have some render and identification problems,
> and less features.
>
> * Opera is NOT free software, one less...
>
> So, we have: Firefox, Chromium, and Midori.
>
> * The big faults of Chomium are, no official support (so Midori) from
> Canonical and from Google (Chromium is just a name project for Google)
> AND a big amount of memory use (I'm testing Chromium and with 7 tabs I
> got 815 MB used!!! (No flash guys)).
> Don't think so much on HTML5 (video), my PC waste more CPU watching
> OGG (on Firefox) and h264 (on Chromium) than Flash on both (this is
> sad but true, there are not good video libraries yet)
>
> * Midori is a great tool, not official support from Canonical, but,
> Midori developers are supporting Midori, and this is good. And, Midori
> has been on Ubuntu repos since Hardy, so, we got some experience..
>
> * Firefox is great, but, it's not so fast, and we need something fast
> (remember, old PC's). Firefox have extensions, browser market, support
> from many sites, official support from Canonical and Mozilla,low
> memory use.
>
>
> So, my favorites:
>
> * Midori + Extension to bring "false" identification of Firefox or
> Safari (I like more Firefox ID) to surpass identification problems
>
> * Firefox, keep it simple. Firefox is now a great web browser, and has
> many many people behind.
>
> Having now used Lubuntu on a PII with 128MB RAM, I have to say I tend to
> agree with the above.  Once you open 2 or 3 pages with either Chromium or FF
> the machine can be come quite unresponsive as the poor drive gets thrashed
> with things swapping in an out. Going to try Midori again latter.
>
>
> Note: Don't think on LTS status, I guest that Lubuntu won't be an LTS
> release (just like Kubuntu 8.04).
>
> I think that was me that throw that one in. I just remember the confusion
> with the two KDE 8.04 releases
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html
>
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> Steve
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