Midsized web browser?

[Howard Schwartz]

Currently, I use offbyone as the associated browser for local files with
suffix, htm. It is small and displays simple html quickly. But it only
renders html version 3.2 as i recall.

I would like to find a `midsized' browser, able to deal with more web pages
than offbyone, but not as memory/resource hungry, and slow to load - as
firefox. Firefox is my `serious' browser.

Any suggestions? Perhaps the old dos-based, Arachne might work. I was
unimpressed with K-meleon's `loader' that sits in the tray. True the
browser loaded fast, but it seemed to be at the cost of sticking 1/3 of
the browser's code in memory -- waiting for the time you wanted to browse.

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 26 Nov 2005, Howard Schwartz wrote

Currently, I use offbyone as the associated browser for local
files with suffix, htm. It is small and displays simple html
quickly. But it only renders html version 3.2 as i recall.

I would like to find a `midsized' browser, able to deal with
more web pages than offbyone, but not as memory/resource
hungry, and slow to load - as firefox. Firefox is my `serious'
browser.

Any suggestions? Perhaps the old dos-based, Arachne might
work. I was unimpressed with K-meleon's `loader' that sits in
the tray. True the browser loaded fast, but it seemed to be at
the cost of sticking 1/3 of the browser's code in memory --
waiting for the time you wanted to browse.

Horses and courses, I suppose -- as well as what machine you're
running it on -- but FWIW I've never used K-Meleon's loader and
still figure it loads pretty fast. (It's way, way faster than FF
or Opera on my machine.)

(I'll be interested to hear people's suggestions for an up-to-date
quick-view browser, though; good question.)

 

[*ProteanThread*]

Firefox in its simplest form is pretty fast (no extra plugins). Of course
one could always use NS 4.08 or a streamlined version of NS from
http://www.sillydog.org

 

[Haywire]

Opera
http://www.opera.com/

 

[BoB]

I normally use Firefox or OffbyOne but I was just surfing with Camera
Shy and found it pretty useable, 1.4 meg executable.

Here is a link to the available mirror sites. Just pick the one
nearest to you

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/camerashy/CameraShy.0.2.23.1.exe?download

It is a specially designed browser to say the least. Must be tied
into IE?. If I allowed scripting in IE, Camera Shy stopped bugging
with permission requests while I was on this site looking at neat pics.

http://my.opera.com/community/albums/index.dml?show=vis

BoB