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Here I am thinking that it's a required nowadays that browsers are huge, hulking monsters because of the multitude of things that need to be parsed and rendered
by jcw 17y ago
Here I am thinking that it's a required nowadays that browsers are huge, hulking monsters because of the multitude of things that need to be parsed and rendered on a web page. A minimal and unix-y browser sounds wonderful.
I've been enjoying Arora lately because of how small and lightweight it is, it runs blazingly fast on my old 64mb/333mhz:
http://code.google.com/p/arora/ http://code.google.com/p/arora/
How does Uzbl match up to it in terms of memory usage? I'm (probably wrongfully) assuming it runs slowly because it's written in python.
- astine 17y agoUzbl is actually written in C. Many of it's companion scripts (for cookies, etc...) are written in python however and can be slow.
- dflock 17y agoTrue, however the scripts aren't compulsory - you can have uzbl call anything in response to actions, so you could call scripts in python, bash, whatever - or other native compiled apps, or tool your own stuff in assembler if you like - it's agnostic about the external apps it uses.
- icefox 17y agoWell they are both using WebKit, the GTK port and for Arora the Qt port. They are probably not too far apart in memory. P.S. How is the startup time for Arora on a 333Mhz machine? I worked hard to make it as quick as possible especially when you set it to open with a blank window.
- jcw 17y agoIt starts up about as fast as IE6 does. I'm guessing two or three seconds. Because of Arora, that computer is actually usable now. Thanks for the great browser!