On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Jeremy Henty wrote:

Linux Weekly News covers Hv3, a Tcl-based lightweight browser.

http://lwn.net/Articles/311823/

They refer to Dillo as "perhaps the best known minimalist browser"! It's worth reading the comments to see what people want to see in a lightweight browser and what they don't miss if it's not there. They certainly appreciate the speed.

That sounds like my cue. In case anyone is interested, Dillo has been my default browser for about four or five years -- and almost nothing in this thread nor on the sites mentioned means a thing to me; most of it I never heard of till now. Noticeably often Dillo can't or won't display what I click on -- somewhere between 1 time in 10 and 1 in 100 -- closer to the less frequent end. So be it; that fact alone, or it plus some message the site gives me (e.g., "You need mxzstplk; download it here.") may tell me whether to skip it. If not, I have four or so bigger slower browsers open all the time on other work-spaces, anyway. (Opera, Firefox, Galeon, and usually Epiphany; sometimes Konqueror; occasionally Kazehakase, Midori, or Seamonkey. I use Firefox for NoScript; Opera for redirects (which I dis-automate); and so on.) Having those already launched makes it fast to switch work-spaces, add or overwrite a tab, and try the reject there. (I can usually guess from Dillo and the URL itself which to pick, nearly always on the first try.) The really big things, to at least this one not quite clueless user (who wouldn't know a line of code if it bit me), are what they've always been, and I hope will remain : safety and speed. In particular, I run a couple of small private lists, most of whose subscribers use one form or another of Windows; I don't allow attachments of any sort; and I urge people to send links instead. So I have lots of sites to vet. (Until recently, I ran lists only manually.) For that, Dillo is invaluable. If Dillo displays a site, it's likely to be safe -- and I can guess whether my subscribers will be interested. If not, that one next look will likely tell me what I need to know. In any case, better by far that I, with Dillo, linux (Fedora 10), hard & soft firewalls, etc., should look -- rather than some poor soul with negligible defenses. I hope this helps. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. I try to be paranoid, but I just can't keep up.