On February 27, 2004 07:17, Peter A. Cole wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering if anyone can suggest a lighter weight alternative to > Mozilla Firebird? >
> So far, I think Galeon may be similar to Firebird, but I think it > will want Gnome installed, which I definitely don't want to run. > There's Skipstone, but for some reason it does not appear to be in the Debian repository anymore, which is unfortunate since it appears to be what you're after - Gecko rendering, uses gtk without Gnome and without all the XUL overhead of Firefox and Mozilla. It also has a decent slate of modern browsing features - tabbed browsing, bookmark toolbar, downloading via wget, configuration of mail handlers, etc. It may have been removed since there have been no apparent updates since June 2002 - just a few months before Phoenix (now Firefox) was first released... http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]