[Lilux-help] Re: Installing LINUX

[Eric Dondelinger]

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Patrick Kaell wrote:

> Eric Dondelinger wrote:
[Mozilla startup times]
>                                   I installed Mozilla 1.7.2 without the
> mail client, chat client and so on. The 8sec figure is an approximation
> I have in my head. I will time it tomorrow.

Ok the lack of mail/chat/kitchensink client might help, as there'd
be less to read from disk at startup. It would indeed almost sound
like Firefox ;-) which is said to have very nice startup times.
I don't have any system handy to test this atm.

> > It has limitations, no doubt. Might I interest you in w3m instead?
> > Even if it's for textmode, depending on the version, you can have
> > proper display of tables, graphics etc.
> > Anyway, I've found this kind of tools extremely helpful when only
> > "lesser" machines were available for internet access.
>
> Sometimes, a more primitive browser can have a real advantage. Less
> features, less code often also means less bugs and more security. And
> dillo is good enough to view most news sites.

Yup. Actually, the moment when I was very glad about w3m was
when I came back home from university. My 17" screen had broken
2 weeks before, and the only system I had capable of accessing
the 'net was my P133/48MB/2GB laptop w/ 800x600 LCD - system
on which I really didn't like to run X because of low res and
relatively little resources. Surfing the computing businesses'
sites with w3m, looking for a decent new monitor, was an
eye-opener as to really bad web design ;-)

Greets Eric