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  1. Re:Opera may be cool by Jon+Howard · · Score: 2 · on Opera 6.0 for Linux Released

    Of course a browser that fits on a floppy wouldn't offer the features that customers needed, and wouldn't have any market presence

    Speaking of browsers that fit on a floppy, check out OffByOne. It's tiny, fast, functional under win32 or wine, and provides the all of the basics. While it's not the most powerful browser out there, it can handle ssl and is extremely slim.

    Consider it a halfway-point between Lynx and Opera. :)

  2. Re:Is this Mozilla version any faster? by Shadowcaster · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla 0.9.7 Released!
    I 've got an AMD K6/200 machine (which used to be Cyrix 6x86/PR-200) and Mozilla works fast enough to be useable. It could be faster, but it's "fast enough".

    Back when I gave Milestone 12 a go it really sucked balls, but it's come a long way since then. :) Now I use it almost exclusively.. almost. I also use K-Meleon for a more lightweight Gecko-based browser with some frills (and a taskbar loader like Moz ;), and OffByOne when I want a browser that works, and works blazingly fast. (though OB1 has no plugins support, javascript, java, etc.. it does do cookies tho)

    A bit of warning though, Mozilla and K-Meleon loaded up at the same time will lag your system! My guess as to why is that you'll have essentially two complete instances of the Gecko engine loaded up, and they don't want to play nice together. *shrug*

    Those are the ones I use in Winblows (three cheers for LiteStep!!).. in Linux I use Lynx, or I wget it and read it raw like all REAL men do!

  3. In response... by milesw · · Score: 5, Informative · on Tiny Apps

    to some excellent comments and feedback, I'd like to offer the following:

    1. Yes, 1.44mb can hardly be called "tiny". To be honest, the reason it was chosen is that I just *had* to include the QNX Demo Disk and the OffByOne Web Browser. But much of the site is dedicated to apps in the 2 to 200kb range, which I think can fairly be called "tiny". One example is EVE, a very cool vector graphics editor whose executable is a mere 39k. There are many more listed along these lines.

    2. Yes, Windows is very bloated, but by customizing the shell, removing IE, and performing a host of other surgeries, it can actually be quite a nice little OS. I just received an email reply from the author of Optimizing Windows (published by O'Reilly). His book explains (among many other things) how to get Windows 95 down to 17 mb.

    3. I realize that Slashdot is generally geared towards *nix users and want to thank you for being kind enough to list a site mainly covering DOS/Windows apps. As I mention on the home page, folks (from any OS) interested in contributing to the site or having a link posted are more than welcome to contact me.

    Also, many thanks to those responsible for the mirror mentioned in one of the posts.

    Much aloha,

    Miles Wolbe
    miles@tinyapps.org
    http://www.TinyApps.org/

  4. Nifty by Happy+Monkey · · Score: 1 · on Tiny Apps

    This web browser is pretty nifty... I'm even using it to make this post.