[plug] Dillo - lightweight GTK-based web browser, worth a look

[Alan Graham]

Those pathetic losers (TM) at CommBank (while still being undoubtedly
Pathetic Losers), have sorted out netbank support for Mozilla.  I've being
using it quite happily for a while now.

Regards

Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Wright <pete at akira.apana.org.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Dillo - lightweight GTK-based web browser, worth a look


> On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 12:53:51PM +0800, Christian wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:15:54AM +0800, Peter Wright wrote:
> > > When I first ran it (ie. about an hour ago) my reaction (and I have
> > > read in the mailing list archives that at least one other person had a
> > > similar reaction :) was to blink then think "what? it's loaded
> > > already???"
> >
> > Bah, who needs it?  We've got Mozilla...
>
> I'm _hoping_ that was sarcasm. :):)
>
> My primary graphical browser is actually Galeon, which I think is bloody
> fantastic feature-wise, and much much more usable than mozilla (which
feels
> sluggish even on my dual Celeron 500 / 512M RAM box). I also use Opera6
> (TP1) for Linux occasionally, which is also very quick, very nice, and has
> the funky mouse gestures feature. The main reason I prefer Galeon to
Opera6
> is just that Galeon renders pages a little bit more nicely (as to whether
> that's worth the noticeable speed/memory difference is of course
debateable :).
>
> I do use Opera for connecting to the pathetic loser Commonwealth Bank web
> banking system, which does javascript checks for browsers and some other
> really weird (probably non-standard) Javascript stuff that simply didn't
> work in Galeon or Mozilla when I last tested it. Opera6, when pretending
to
> be IE5/Windows, handles it okay though.
>
> Harry (and others interested) - Opera6 is a great and very featureful
> browser even for low-end machines, Windows or Linux. I strongly recommend
> it - I've even considered actually paying for it a couple of times :).
>
> Dillo is extraordinarily fast and light but doesn't look remotely as good
as
> Galeon/Mozilla/Opera and is not very HTML standards compliant (eg. I don't
> think it handles frames yet). Hopefully the development team will be
> putting cookies support into the main tree very soon[0] - that's about the
> only major missing feature from my perspective.
>
> Pete.
>
> [0] ..there's apparently two or three different patches available to put
> cookies support into Dillo, but for various reasons these haven't been
> integrated into the main dev tree yet.
> --
> http://akira.apana.org.au/~pete/
>
> --
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> Lambert, says he knows for a fact that someone has been fired for just
that
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>
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