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stevan on April 15, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vimium - the hacker's browser

Lightweight alternatives (to heavyweight Chrome and Firefox):

xxxterm; http://www.peereboom.us/xxxterm/html/

uzbl; http://uzbl.org/

surf; http://surf.suckless.org/

vimprobable2; http://www.vimprobable.org/

postfuturist on April 15, 2010 | [–]

I wouldn't exactly call Chrome heavyweight. It runs fine on my 10 year old thinkpad running an Lxde desktop (256 MB, 550Mhz machine).

_delirium on April 16, 2010 | [–]

Is there a good writeup anywhere about how those compare? Which should I try out first?

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