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Posted: June 09 2006,22:18 QUOTE
Even without Firefox extensions, Firefox is the smallest browser available that accurately supports CSS, javascript, and media plugins.  Dillo is the equivalent of a text browser with buttons, in comparison.
I definitely don't mean that to say Dillo is bad...i use it daily for viewing "plain" html.  But it is extremely limited on today's web, as was mentioned in the other firefox-vs-dillo threads.

I have been keeping my eyes open for a good compromise between firefox and dillo, but so far it doesn't exist....you either have limited support of certain html features or you have a fatass resource hog (opera fits into that category as well).

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Posted: June 10 2006,00:02 QUOTE
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Dillo, does not suck up all the resources. You can see it for yourself, just open FF and look how much your ram goes up and look at your cpu hit 100% when starting, then do the same with dillo.

Maybe, but it seems only to render simple html pages correctly.

What's the use of a mean and lean browser id the page it shows is imperfect and missing information?

I agree, save spae and dump lynx and dillo.

FireFox loathers can replace it with Opera which seems to be slick and fast. It also holds an email client so you can delete sylpheed too.

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Posted: June 10 2006,00:06 QUOTE
I'd give up the distro before i gave up firefox and i use dillo when i don't want distractions and just want some fast surfing.
Opera still takes up more resources than dillo to run.
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Posted: June 10 2006,00:38 QUOTE
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]FireFox loathers can replace it with Opera which seems to be slick and fast. It also holds an email client so you can delete sylpheed too.

Opera?!  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:

No way - anything but that.  No, the currecnt FF+dillo combination is great  :cool:

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Posted: June 10 2006,04:15 QUOTE
BTW - I just noticed that Dillo cannot render some - but not all, cyrillic pages so FF remains a must (at least for me)

But I have to admit that dillo is hyper-fast (faster than lynx I think) and its 'inability' to show flash advertisement is a great plus for sure :;):

What a great little browser.  I just wish there was a way of blocking all images and I would be in heaven!

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