Crashdamage Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 I've tried most of the browsers mentioned so far, and to date links2 -g (the '-g' switch is for graphics mode, leave off for text-only mode) is hands down the fastest, lightest graphical browser I've used. Also the best text browser I've used. Links2 supports ssl & javascript, but not java plugins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 (edited) yeah, big difference compared to lynx, this one is really fast, though the mandriva version does not come with the -g option :( $ links -g Graphics not enabled when compiling Edited May 30, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 You need 'links2', not plain 'links', for graphics mode. I'm using a generic rpm I got somewhere now, but the Mandrake links2 rpms I used before had graphics capability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 (edited) ah there´s an rpm called links-graphic, I think links might come in real handy when I break my xorg again.... Edited May 30, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 Hmmm.... The links2 graphics-capable rpm could also be named something like "links-2.1xxxx" like the version I'm writing this with is. If you install the graphics-capable version it'll launch in text mode with 'links' or 'links -g' for graphical mode. You're right, links can be very handy when you bork X. So is Midnight Commander. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 yup, now i still need a useable text editor (ie. not vi and not emacs), and I can start doing fixes from my install, instead of having to boot to another partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 Well, if you don't like using vi or vim, Midnight Commander has a very good built-in editor. Actually, that's what I use most of the time instead of vi. My main uses for vi are as default editor for email with mutt or usenet with slrn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 You´re right, I thought you could only browse text files, not save them.... :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 (edited) The MC texteditor is actually vi itself! :D You just don't have to remember the vi keystrokes. Factly, I only use vi directly via "visudo" - in all other cases I use either MC or nano. Edited May 31, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 The MC texteditor is actually vi itself! :DYou just don't have to remember the vi keystrokes. Which is the thing I hate about any program, remembering keystrokes, I mean remembering keystrokes is so 1985*.... (* the year before amiga was launched, iirc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlackxxJapan Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Hmmm [i've read all the posts]. It looks like Dillo seems to be the lightest/fastest browser, so I might go with that one. The problem seems to be that my browsing is pretty slow on Linux compared to linux, yet my downloads are faster XD [irony for you.] Maybe just using Firefox with the tweaks may work out in the end, I'm not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 screcrow said: The MC texteditor is actually vi itself! It's actually called mcedit, and I'd have to do some checking to be absolutely sure, but I don't believe it's based on vi at all. ffi said: Which is the thing I hate about any program, remembering keystrokes, I mean remembering keystrokes is so 1985*.... It may be 1985, but it's by far faster than mousing around for most common tasks. If users would learn keystrokes, they could have much simpler systems and get a lot more done. GUIs are better for some things, but generally I try to avoid GUI interfaces, which is easier to do with Linux. If only Windoze had some of the great text apps available in Linux - like MC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 To each his own, it was only last year (i bought my first computer in 1984, when i was 10) i learned ctrl-v and the other one (forgot already for copying and pasting) but that was only because I had to work with Oracle which doesnt have a right click context menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 It's actually called mcedit, and I'd have to do some checking to be absolutely sure, but I don't believe it's based on vi at all. There is no actual binary named mcedit. It is just a symlink to the MC internal editor, which is named "cooledit", and it's one hundred percent vi based. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppetto Posted June 1, 2006 Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 Opera is very lightweight, fast, and it has so many keyboard features, that really don't need a mouse to use it. It's definitely my favorite browser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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