Lightweight browser?

Hi folks
I looked at Activity monitor while running Safari3 on the iBook, as my son complained that an internet game (Runescape - a java based game) was slow compared to the MacBook Pro (duh, of course it's slower!). Activity Monitor showed the CPU running at capacity while on Runescape. I was curious about whether there was a browser that I could use that was lighter on the CPU. Maxxing the RAM has helped, as there was still some unused!
I Googled, but wondered whether this forum might give a more reliable answer?
Anyway, best wishes for the holiday season, and I look forward to the replies.
Roger

Ronda Wilson wrote:
I have noticed that Firefox is not usually as big a memory hog as Safari.
It may help to close all other applications excepting the browser he's trying to play the game in. If that doesn't help, restarting the iBook before launching the browser and loading the game may help.
As alternative browsers, you can try Camino, Opera, SeaMonkey, OmniWeb, or Shiira.
The iBook G3 500 MHz came out in 2001, so you are looking at a six-year-old computer and it's not going to run all of the newest things, obviously.
I've got a 12" iBook G3 600. It got noticeably slow trying to process complex Java or Flash browser embedded applications. The complexity of the embedded application is going to be the reason for maxing out CPU usage and not the browser. It probably would help to close as many applications as possible, but the machine just isn't well suited for many more recent Java application.
It's also a little bit flaky with AirPort, but I hardly used it after getting my 14" iBook G4 1.42. That was considerably faster, and even that's outdated compared to my new Santa Rosa MacBook.

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PKGBUILD:
# Contributor: Shahar Weiss <[email protected]>
pkgname=skipstone
pkgver=0.9.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="SkipStone is a Gtk+ Web Browser that embeds Mozilla's rendering component Gecko. It aims to be light and fast with few dependencies."
url="http://www.muhri.net/skipstone"
license="GPL"
install=skipstone.install
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source=($url/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz skipstone.install)
md5sums=('e5f558e474dcaee673edf25877bdba5b' 'a06a39f3123717de4647bff1339f0c7a')
build() {
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sed 's//usr/bin/install//bin/install/g' config.mk > config.mk
sed 's//usr/bin/install//bin/install/g' config.status > config.status
./configure --prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr
--enable-cvs-mozilla
--with-mozilla-includes=/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla
--with-mozilla-libs=/opt/mozilla/lib/mozilla
make || return 1
make install
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skipstone.install:
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echo ">>> You'll need to have Perl installed in order to launch the script."
/bin/true
op=$1
shift
$op $*
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Cotton wrote:
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The Nokia E51: The things that work, and the thing...

Wonderful phone. Let me list my accomplishments and outstanding challenges.
Challenges
* Finding a video player that will play common formats like xVid in LANDSCAPE format. I did find a free app that will download and play anything on Youtube, but again not landscape.
* Need to find a video recorder that records with a better frame rate. Is there one?
* SIP voip calls remain a challenge.. Not sure if the issue is NAT traversal or that I just have the settings wrong or that the issue is the voip/sip provider.. Have been able to get Gizmovoip to work, BUT call quality to land lines is less than I get on Skype-Out (using Fring). With VoipBuster it seems to connect to the service, but when making a call it just sits there without response or connecting or anything else happening. So would still like to do smooth, cheap and reliable SIP.. Any thoughts on providers? Needs to be cheap (or free) to USA, Holland and Thaland.
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* How to change the user-agent of this web browser.. Some sites are determined to present me their 'light' version. People: "Light" is not good when it comes to WiFi phones, or beer. So need to change the user-agent that the browser presents. Opera Mini goes some way to reduce the problem; excellent little browser that, and the best to use when your connection isn't WiFi (and/or not free/unlimited or slow)
* How to select and copy (to paste elsewhere) text from a web page? Would like for example to be able to use the edit key (#) and drag & select the mouse pointer.
* Nimbuzz is a free program that allows you to chat to MSN, Yahoo Chat (etc, etc) AND Skype chat. It's weird on this phone though, sometimes it just does't start when I try to open it. Can use Fring of course, but the chat function in Nimbuzz is better. Also think Nimbuzz leaks less GPRS bytes in overhead, which is nice when paying by the kilo/megabyte.
* Need to find a Calendar & Todo GTD type program that kicks **bleep**, rather than sucks it.
* Some good games would be nice. Suggestions? Would love a good pinball or other simple yet addictive arcade stuff. I loved the old Nokia 9 Ball Pool as well
* Standby screen sometimes flashes/flickers. It seems it's updating something, but the effect is annoying. It's not a hardware glitch, the background wallpaper remains visible. it's just the Standby items that briefly blink.
* My phone has English and Thai as languages. I *NEED* Dutch T9. Why is finding & adding a couple more languages as hard as the Quest for the Holy Grail? Come ON..
* You can really feel the phone heating up when it's working hard, just as with a Skype-Out call.. I'm not suffering burns or anything, but is that normal?
* On S60 v2 you could go into 'Applications' and set that certain applications were allowed to access the internet. Options included 'always allow', 'ask every time' and 'ask first time'. Where did that go? Some apps have a habit of asking to connect a couple times. I want to just allow them access. (Or ideally, access only when connected to a particular access point or access point group.)
Accomplishments (SOLVED)
- Getting rid of T9 words that I added but that these days become the first suggested word.. Found a way to revert back to the common word 'is' after adding 'HR' (as in human resources) to the dictionary which in hindsight is a boneheaded thing to do.. (T9 didn't used to work that way on my last Symbian phone)
- External Bluetooth keyboard 'justworks' out of the box, great.
- Wifi search, signal reception and configuration is amazing.
- Must-Haves: File system access with the free Y-Browser, Fring chat/Skype calls, Gmail client (lighter than the built in one), emTube (for Youtube vids).
- Also Google maps is pretty amazing, it even tracked my position using GSM triangulation when I was *WAY* upcountry in Northern Thailand.. Sometimes though it says 'position not availabs le', is that a phone thing or a network operator thing that they didn't list the GPS position of their signal towers?
That's it so far.. has it been a week already..?! I just don't know how I ever lived without one.
Message Edited by hantms on 13-Feb-2008 07:26 AM
Message Edited by hantms on 13-Feb-2008 07:29 AM

> People complaining about video player and picture taking
> capabilities should have bought an NSeries.
To a degree I agree when it comes to hardware; like E51 includes a 2 MP camera which honestly is fine for business functions like taking the occasional pic of a whiteboard drawing or the like.
However business people also want to show people pictures of their kids or something, and on a phone that's got plenty of hardware punch it seems just petty to ship it with a handicapped picture browser.
Same applies to music.. On those long flights you do actually want to listen to music..
I think this whole N vs E vs number series is just a case of over-marketing your stuff. I buy E51 because it had all the features I valued at a great price; nothing else enters into it. The next choice would actually have been 6110 Navigator, a number series phone. Or if an N series then probably an N80i, again similarly priced.
> Eseries is or is marketed as a business phone. It should
> perform well when it comes to business yet the most common
> task of syncing outlook email is out of the question.
The irony is that the best e-mail implementation is actually GMail.. Get e-mails in a very lightweight browser AND be able to quickly search and retrieve ANY e-mail sent in the last 3 years or so. Really that's all that's needed. (well, along with better support for attachments, but the server-based model works very well I think.
> PCSuite is obsolete. Even in its 6.85 version as it only
> offers sync with Outlook express while the newer version of
> Windows Mail is something people from Nokia are not yet
> aware.
Yeah I never quite understood that application. There seems so much redundancy there.. I mean you just want to copy files to and from the phone, so if the thing works like a USB drive then that really is just fine to move either pictures or music or anything else. I tried the i-tunes wannabe app once and honestly I don't see the poing of converting my mp3's to whatever it's converting to. The original mp3 sounds just fine and I have plenty of space on the memory card.
And then as a separate there should be sync to Outlook and that's pretty much it.
Backup....: again that's either just copying files, OR syncing. My sync to outlook IS my backup.
Modem/connections: I'd rather just see that as a modem driver for Windows and be done with it.
> I own an E51 and sometimes it fails to see my music on my 8Gb
> card.
Yeah, it's not smart enough to notice by itself that a metric **bleep**ton of new tunes showed up so you have to manually go 'update'. Oh well.
> Switching programs sometimes leaves me with a white screen
> for a couple of minutes.
I don't get that.. UNless perhaps the app crashed in a serious way, usually something pretty beta like Fring.
> Yet I don't complain cause is a new product and a new
> firmware will probably address those issues.
> But not being able to take my Outlook inbox with me
> it's disappointing, frustrating and unacceptable.
I'd be inclined to auto-forward all my work email to Gmail and be done with it. Then you have years of email always with you.
> Come on Nokia you can do better than this.
Are you kidding, they're all working on making their stuff look and feel like iPhone, just like every other phone company out there. Waste time in syncing email and multiple to-do levels? Sorry, not very hip, even for a business phone.
And to be sure, look at all the business people buying iPhones as if they were buying donuts.. iPhone COMPLETELY lacks major and sometimes very basic phone / business features but they don
t CARE as it browses the net, shows pictures, plays music. Again, Nokia tries to over-market and over-segment.. Get a cool 'everything' phone out there and everyone will buy it, business people included. Heck, 'business functions' just means 'business software'. For sure there's no such thing as business hardware..

Opening applications externally in luakit via vimperatoresque "follow"

Hey guys,
I wanted a lightweight browser and after trying many (midori, xombrero, qupzilla, jumanji, dillo), I settled on luakit (+ privoxy). I use my keyboard for most tasks, so it's no surprise that my loyalties are towards awesome and, henceforth, the equally customizable and vimperator-inspired luakit! Vim is my favorite text editor, so getting my luakit experience to seamlessly blend with the rest of my work is one of my priorities.
This is hardly an original contribution, but I thought it would be useful for anybody new to luakit and facing the same problem I was. I searched online but wasn't able to find an effective way to open files externally (videos, pictures and pdfs) apart from this, but it requires using the mouse, which to me, feels a bit awkward.
luakit fortunately has key-bindings borrowed from vimperator that allow users to "follow" links. Usually 'F' and 'Shift+F' serve most purposes (these open a link in the current tab and a new tab respectivey). Similar functionality can be achived using the ';' key followed by another key to "do things" with the selected link. For example, following ';' with say 'Y' allows users to yank urls. Following ';' with 'O' opens the link in the current tab.
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key({}, "d", [[Hint all links (as defined by the `follow.selectors.uri`
selector) and set the primary selection to the matched elements URI,
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function (w)
w:set_mode("follow", {
prompt = "video", selector = "uri", evaluator = "uri",
func = function (uri)
assert(type(uri) == "string")
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w:notify("no jpg extension | unrecognized")
end
end
end),
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url=$1
file="${url##*/}"
echo $file
case "$file" in
*\%20* )
urxvtc -e aria2c --allow-overwrite=true -d /var/tmp $url -o lousy_file_name_that_had_spaces.pdf
zathura /var/tmp/lousy_file_name_that_had_spaces.pdf
# echo "found a damned space in file name!"
urxvtc -e aria2c --allow-overwrite=true -d /var/tmp $url
zathura /var/tmp/$file
esac
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The picture opening really isn't necessary, but is kind of useful for sites like reddit.
luakit is a really cool browser for being so accessible to costumization (I've never written a single line of lua code previously)!
I hope this post helps at least one other person.
Cheers!
Last edited by cable (2015-05-14 21:46:29)

Hi Bharath,
check this
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/b8/437d46d4451e4c9ab756e272a1581d/frameset.htm
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Latest Adobe Flash Player version is not compatible with our android tablet - can I install an earlier AFP version that will work?

Hi...
...and thanks for reading this:
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The details on why Adobe dropped support for Android are here, but yeah, we haven't released an Android Flash Player since late 2012.
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Hello,
after I found midori in the extra repository I installed it an it works fine.
The only thing that doesn't work is the javaplugin.
Jre is installed and works with every browser I testet(Firefoy, Epiphany, Opera).
Can anyone help me?
Greetings
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The website here mentions it being a lightweight browser and also does not mention anything about Java support.
So its probably not supported.
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Adobe Edge team, for a lightweight browser that should be easy to use, this does not make it easy. Hopefully you can implement a fix soon that works for all cases as I was really looking forward to trying this out and I'm unable to.

I am having issues as well.
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Live Preview Error: Unable to Load Development Page
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Ive seen the other threads, but none of those items seem to fix my issue.
Anything I can do here besides wait for update? Love the basic product - the editing features are awesome, but until live preview + reliable FTP is set, I'll probably stick with current coding solutions.
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Image Browser downloads to wrong folder

I couldn't find a better category for this question than iPhoto. Sorry if there is one.
I just got a Canon powershot A630 camera. it's great. I was using iPhoto to download images and that was fine. But I thought the Image Browser software that came with the camera would offer more functionality. And i guess it does but I'm having a lot of difficulties with it.
I called Canon and spoke with tech support but they just tell me it works for them so it must be my problem. They are using mac 10.4 and I have 10.3.9 so that might be part of it. The Image Browser version is 5.7.
Here's what happens:
I have specified under "Preferences" in the "Camera Window" (that comes up when I connect the camera to the computer) for the images to be downloaded to a folder I created called "Powershot A630" which resides in the Pictures folder. The default location for download is that same Pictures folder. And that's where the images go, NOT to the folder I specified.
I've tried also setting that in the EOS window (which can only be started when the camera is NOT connected to the computer). Still doesn't help.
The Canon guy ran me through a scenario where I "select" pictures for downloading. In this scenario I get a chance to specify the destination, and in fact, it shows the destination I chose in preferences. And it does download to the correct place. But then, where the Image Browser main window lists "favorite" folders, my destination folder is now listed twice. Not desireable I think.
At this point, I think I'll just go back to iPhoto, but if anyone has a solution, or other reasons why I should use Image Browser I'd love to hear.
One more thing. The second Canon guy I talked with took me into "Image capture" utility and had me set the destination folder there. Don't see where that has any bearing on the activity at hand, though.
Thanks a lot,
Bruce
powermac g5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
powermac g5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Smtr,
See my responses (marked "B-") interleaved with your great note...
Bruce,
I love my Canon Powershot A620. The 630 looks
awesome. My Image Browser is version 5.5, and I don't
know what changed with the next versions.
B- Yeah, the a630 is really nice. I previously had an A40 and this is a major step up.
Anyway, the second Canon guy sounds a bit more
knowlegdeable about Macs. The preferences in Image
Capture are where you set which application (or none)
opens automatically when the Mac detects a camera or
card. So if setting it in Image Capture doesn't work,
then I'm not sure what will. I'm afraid I can't
answer your core question here about how to download
to your preferred folder.
B- Thanks for explaining that. It's very clear. I did not understand that from my conversation with the Canon rep.
As for your choice of which app to use, consider
this: Image Browser is just that - an application for
browsing your hard drive and displaying the image
files in various ways. iPhoto is NOT an image
browser. It is a photo organizer with lightweight
editing capabilities and limited version control.
B- That's good to know, too. I was assuming that Imagebrowser was a substitute for iPhoto and I was hoping for increased funcionality. And it does have lots of stuff in it, which was more confusing than anything else.
iPhoto is a database application, so when you use it
you should NOT manipulate items in its library folder
structure from within the Finder.
B- yeah, I had discovered that
With an image
browser you always manipulate the files yourself from
Finder. You alone are responsible for the
organization of your images. With a database you
manipulate your files from inside the application,
and let it take care of the file management
automatically. The two apps are incompatible. If you
import your photos to iPhoto you should not access
them using Image Browser, because you could damage
the library. I know you weren't suggesting combining
the two, I am just trying to highlight the
differences between them.
So ask yourself if you like iPhoto's capabilities. If
you were happy with it before, then there's really no
need to switch to Image Browser. It's like apples and
... cows (oranges are too similar) and the choice is
up to you.
B- the one thing I like so far about imagebrowser is the easy way to view the image full screen. Have not figured out how to do that in iPhoto.
BUT, there is a task inside my Image Browser that I
absolutely LOVE because it does something I can't do
with iMovie. Its called "MovieEdit Task" in
Applications>Image Browser>DVCUtility. It's a great
little thing that lets you take separate video clips
and combine them into one movie. It's much simpler
than iMovie, and optimized to work with your Canon's
video clips. (Whereas iMovie prefers miniDV tape.) It
will allow you to rotate a video clip 90 degrees, so
if you turned the camera on its side to record a
movie clip you can rotate it to portrait view. I have
done this and used the clip in iMovie, and it was
perfect. Without it I would have needed an iMovie
plug-in or had to buy QuickTime Pro.
B- I'll have to look into that. I also have a digital camcorder and have used iMovie. And I'll definitely look into the rotation. My novice friend used my camcorder and shot a bunch of shots of our band with the camcorder rotated 90 degrees.
So, I sometimes use Image Browser due to the way it
handles video clips. Here, it is superior to iPhoto.
But for every day use and for the storage,
organization, and manipulation of my photos, I use
iPhoto (in conjunction with PhotoShop Elements for
real editing).
Just my 4¢.
B- Thanks for the great letter!
Bruce
powermac g5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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