[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Dillo (was "Opera vulnerability")

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Michael Procter wrote:
>
> > It won't help on the Dark Side, but I just tried dillo and it is fast
> > and clean: http://dillo.auriga.wearlab.de/
>
> Cool.  I think I'll try to compile it on Solaris.


I did compile it on Solaris.  No problems.  When I start it up from the
command line, it continues to send info to stderr, so I start it like
this...

dillo >& /dev/null &

...to send the stderr to /dev/null (other wise it sends some text to my
terminal every time I go to another web page!)

It doesn't use a lot of memory.  I think their web page was misleading in
saying "Dillo is small: source is less than 365 KB, and the binary is
around 265 KB" because the source was 365 KB *gzipped* and my binary was
about 6.4 MB (25 times the promised size).  It seems to use about 1/3 the
memory of Netscape though, which is nice.

It doesn't seem to be java enabled so some pages don't work at all.  It
can't deal with frames properly.  It can't do ftp.  I don't think it can
do https.

That's my first impression.  Nice little browser, very fast compared to
Netscape on the same platform, but not very full featured.

Mike
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