Best Light Weight FreeBSD Browser

JoshuaBranson

JoshuaBranson

What is a lightweight FreeBSD browser that can do the following things:

1) Work well with Xfce
2) Has a plugin for flash, quicktime, and javascript
3) Can use Paypal with it
a) enables 128 bit encryption
b) can view pdf documents
4) Is pretty stable and secure
 
Nowadays browser choice is a matter of personal preference (though no one should use IE on Windows). All of the graphical browsers will do what you want. The lightest will be Opera though there are some lesser known ones out there I'm sure others will suggest.
 
You want too many things from a lightweight browser so I don't know If this one has all features you want but try this: midori
 
mingrone said:
Some lightweight-browsers that look promising are www/xxxterm, www/surf and www/uzbl. I don't thnik www/xxxterm supports flash and the others have their problems, but are quickly improving.
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I use www/surf everyday (what I'm typing this on). It's very light weight and supports java-script and flash (if thats your thing). But this morning I had a problem with a paypal transaction so I had to hop on my girlfriends PC (Debian/Iceweasel) to complete the transaction.

www/uzbl is good but development has stalled abit since the main dev handed the project to someone else about 6 months ago.

www/xxxterm is also worth a mention because its written my Marco Peereboom (OpenBSD dev, also did scrotwm). It's good and fast but the one thing that annoyed me was "follow hinting" couldn't be used until the web page had loaded 100%.

But these are all ultra-lightweight, for what you want I would go with www/midori as mentioned previously I'm not 100% sure but I think the deveolpment of it is now tied to XFCE.
 
I would love a web browser that supports all the OP's features (minus flash, pdf and plugin support) whilst at the same time not dragging in a stupid amount of dependencies making it impossible for me to compile once the majority of people have moved onto the latest fad / gimmick. (which cancels out webkit, gecko and most other engines)

But hey, that's just me. Obviously others disagree or there would be more decent web browsers ;)
 
fossala said:
I use www/surf everyday (what I'm typing this on). It's very light weight and supports java-script and flash (if thats your thing). But this morning I had a problem with a paypal transaction so I had to hop on my girlfriends PC (Debian/Iceweasel) to complete the transaction.
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The reason you had a problem with the Paypal transaction on the www/surf browser is probably because www/surf isn't capable of a 128-bit encryption, which is what Paypal uses. I know the newer versions of Google Chrome, Firefox, and I'm assuming Chromium browser (because that basically is Google Chrome) are capable of a 128 bit encryption.
 
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