Folderol  wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a browser with as little overhead as possible, and
> reasonably performant - doesn't have to have all the bells and whistles.
> I'm running devuan beowulf - not easy to set up initially, but much leaner
than
> raspbian.

With as little overhead as possible might be Netrik. Note that HTTPS
support only exists if you tell it to fetch pages using wget, and
even then it's clunky. It's the best answer I know if I take your
question literally though.

Taking it less literally, there's Lynx, W3M, Links, and Elinks as
text-mode browsers with a bit more bulk to them. W3M can display
images inline if it's set up right. Lynx, Links, and ELinks can
open images that you select in your preferred image viewer (eg. xv,
xzgv). Some support CSS, and maybe some claim of Javascript support
(but not enough to be much use today).

Taking it even less literally, there's Links2 (sometimes just called
Links, as it has been already in this thread) which includes a
graphical mode where images are displayed inline and other
"improvements" over terminal-based page rendering are available. Then
there's my personal favourite Dillo, which is the most minimal of the
web browsers with more "modern" graphical page rendering. Sort-of
supports CSS, but no Javascript support.

Just before I give up on "as little overhead as possible" entirely,
there's Netsurf. It's bulkier than Dillo but has some Javascript
support and maybe slightly better CSS support. Not enough to make
things like modern online shopping sites work though, so it's no
better than Dillo for my use, while being less efficient (I don't
care much about CSS and other design elements being broken though).

Then the rest are mostly based on the same rendering engine as
Firefox or Chrome, so performance-wise the advantage can never be
very significant compared to mainstream browsers. I don't bother
with these anymore, but others do (presumably more for features than
significant performance advantage).

Oh, I did forget Hv3. It's no longer developed but does a pretty good
job rendering some modern pages. It's not ideal performance-wise
though because it's written in Tcl. Also HTTPS support is a bit
broken (though that might have just been my installation).
http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/hv3.html

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