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    Light browser, good with rendering.

    When I mean light, I mean less than 10mb or ram usage. Dillo is VERY light, it uses less than 1mb of ram, however, it's rendering capabilities are very limited. Any suggestions?
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    Re: Light browser, good with rendering.

    less then 10mb, there won't be nothing decent. i use chromium, on average at least 30+mb.

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    Re: Light browser, good with rendering.

    Swiftfox is lighter than Firefox, if that helps. Tried Chrome, Dillo, and a few others but Fire/Swift-fox give me airmiles and I figure any sluggishness will be offset for that


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    Re: Light browser, good with rendering.

    uzbl? never used it, just heard about it.

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    Re: Light browser, good with rendering.

    Quote Originally Posted by chris200x9 View Post
    uzbl? never used it, just heard about it.
    I have, It's difficult to navigate with.
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    Re: Light browser, good with rendering.

    Check Source Forge , I got 202 results for web browsers.
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    Re: Light browser, good with rendering.

    Or just stop obsessing over RAM usage? Unless it significantly slows down your computer, you're being a tad perfectionist and unrealistic tbh.

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    Re: Light browser, good with rendering.

    Quote Originally Posted by Old Marcus View Post
    Or just stop obsessing over RAM usage? Unless it significantly slows down your computer, you're being a tad perfectionist and unrealistic tbh.
    I have 1gb of ram on my netbook. I run gnome. And with firefox, browsing is very laggy. It does affect my browsing significantly.
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    Re: Light browser, good with rendering.

    Quote Originally Posted by dragos240 View Post
    I have 1gb of ram on my netbook. I run gnome. And with firefox, browsing is very laggy. It does affect my browsing significantly.
    there you go, your using gnome & firefox. try a lighter desktop/window manager on the back end & chromium-browser(it's in the repo)

    i'm using an atom 230 1.6ghz 1gb ram nettop.
    running openbox + xfce4-panel + xfdesktop

    i've never ever used more the 400mb yet.
    Last edited by kerry_s; June 17th, 2010 at 11:11 PM.

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    Smile Re: Light browser, good with rendering.

    Here:

    Code:
    #!/usr/bin/env python
    import sys
    import gtk
    import webkit
    DEFAULT_URL = 'http://www.google.com' # Change this as you Wish
    class SimpleBrowser: # needs GTK, Python, Webkit-GTK
        def __init__(self):
            self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
            self.window.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_CENTER_ALWAYS)
            self.window.connect('delete_event', self.close_application)
            self.window.set_default_size(350, 20)
            vbox = gtk.VBox(spacing=5)
            vbox.set_border_width(5)
            self.txt_url = gtk.Entry()
            self.txt_url.connect('activate', self._txt_url_activate)
            self.scrolled_window = gtk.ScrolledWindow()
            self.webview = webkit.WebView()
            self.scrolled_window.add(self.webview)
            vbox.pack_start(self.scrolled_window, fill=True, expand=True)
            self.window.add(vbox)
        def _txt_url_activate(self, entry):
            self._load(entry.get_text())
        def _load(self, url):
            self.webview.open(url)
        def open(self, url):
            self.txt_url.set_text(url)
            self.window.set_title('%s' % url)
            self._load(url)
        def show(self):
            self.window.show_all()
        def close_application(self, widget, event, data=None):
            gtk.main_quit()
    if __name__ == '__main__':
        if len(sys.argv) > 1:
            url = sys.argv[1]
        else:
            url = DEFAULT_URL
        gtk.gdk.threads_init()
        browser = SimpleBrowser()
        browser.open(url)
        browser.show()
        gtk.main()
    This browser qualify 100/100 on Acid3 Test,
    it uses less than 10Mb, Use URL as PARAMETER.

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