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echo: rberrypi
to: COMPUTER NERD KEV
from: MARTIN GREGORIE
date: 2020-08-19 07:12:00
subject: Re: Lightweight Browser

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 22:46:36 +0000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

> Folderol  wrote:
>> Unfortunately none of the suggestions cut the mustard :(
>> Although most of them are indeed lightweight and pretty quick to
>> respond. There are very few websites that render anywhere near
>> correctly.
>
> Hmm, well you never said that you wanted webites to render correctly,
> and that's a very significant requirement. You're limited to browsers
> based on Chromium or Firefox because they're the only ones that website
> developers bother to test with, and their browser engines are both
> bloated and slow to my standards.
>
> Some of us don't mind, or ever prefer, the broken (or perhaps better
> termed "unintended") rendering of websites in lightweight browsers. No
> adds, no pop-ups or hovering bars, no custom fonts, content isn't hidden
> for the sake of styling. It's only when needing to interact with some
> Javascript-based system that the need for a mainstream browser
> unfortunately arises.

Another that might fit the bill is Vivaldi - there is not a Debian ARM
download for it. Not previously mentioned because its not really
lightweight, but now the OP has upped the requirement from 'lightweight'
to 'must render graphical websites correctly', it would seem to be in
scope. Its an Opera replacement - from the same people.

I looked at it some time back - seemed to be fairly quick but I couldn't
get on with the options it offered for scaling on-screen text, but ymmv.


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