I'm looking for some alternatives to the following browsers for Windows:
In particular ones that are lightweight, can display images and fast like Chrome/Safari 4 or Firefox was pre 1.5 - although it's not a prerequisite. Can anyone feed me a list?
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The most lightweight browser I ever heard of is Lynx :-)
Stefan Steinegger
2009-04-30 11:37:43
Quite valid alternative, though not many windows users will know it :)
xtofl
2009-04-30 11:39:42
Being text-based and all
xtofl
2009-04-30 11:39:56
lol might as well add telnet to the list too ;)
Chad Grant
2009-04-30 11:40:11
I would use links instead of lynx any day.
Tim Matthews
2009-04-30 11:42:54
I've update it so lynx isn't valid
Chris S
2009-04-30 11:49:08
Also have you tried Lynx on Vista behind a proxy
Chris S
2009-04-30 12:10:19
Links (a successor of lynx) has graphics mode - http://links.twibright.com/features.php
Blorgbeard
2009-04-30 12:28:58
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K Meleon is pretty lightweight, Amaya definitely isn't, and neither's SeaMonkey
There's a long list including all the IE wrappers here.
Stuart Dunkeld
2009-04-30 11:49:46
Exactly what I was after (the IE wrappers but K Meleon looks decent too)
Chris S
2009-04-30 12:18:19
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If Lynx isn't good enough because of not displaying images, you can still use Arachne for DOS (I'm sure it'll work in Windows, too) ;)
EDIT: The SourceForge page has no downloads, here is a download of 1.95 (November 2008) for DOS and 1.93 for Linux.
schnaader
2009-04-30 11:51:00
I doubt it. Arachne uses its own OSI stack, all the way up from network level, not to mention clever-DOS-memory-tricks. That's not going to fly under Windows (but may work in DOSBox or another VM).
Piskvor
2009-04-30 12:08:14
VM and a FreeDOS image should work, the only problem left could be to find a Network driver, but most VMs give good network access.
schnaader
2009-04-30 12:13:15
Damn.. seems the homepage (http://home.arachne.cz/) is down too - but here's a good download link: http://www.glennmcc.org/arachne/
schnaader
2009-04-30 12:20:38
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As always, Wikipedia has a list of web browsers. I'm sure you can find something in that gold mine, but Links is my lightweight browser of choice. :)
List of web browsers supported on Windows: http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/design/browsers_for_windows.php3
marcog
2009-04-30 11:54:47
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"In particular ones that are lightweight, can display images and fast like Chrome/Safari 4 or Firefox was pre 1.5 - although it's not a prerequisite. Can anyone feed me a list?"
Opera fulfills those criteria, except that it's on your list. Hmmm. No, really: I'm running Opera 9.5 on a 90 MHz Pentium w/ 128 MB RAM and it runs just fine (with Flash and Java switched off, but that's for another flamewar).
Piskvor
2009-04-30 12:05:42