Nice Browsing From Undead & Unknown Software Projects

metalhed77 writes: "A new version of the Nautilus file manager (1.0.4) has made its way out to the gnome ftps. here's the article on linuxtoday. It includes various improvements which are described on linux today, these primarily consisted of bug fixes and speed ups." Good to see that the effort that went into making Nautilus friendly wasn't wasted. But if you want to browse more than your hard drive, HeUnique points out another interesting project which is not distributed with the official KDE package. It's called: KDENOX ("KDE No X" -- you can use it with X or with framebuffer and QT Embedded: here's a screenshot). The gain? You get Konqueror without KDE, with SSL, cookies, proxy, bookmarks, fonts, and without KDE itself. The executable is small (4MB), doesn't take much RAM, and it works very nicely on low end machines ... (grab it from KDE CVS). Update: 07/08 01:17 AM by T : Here's a screenshot elsewhere; first person to mirror gets a lollipop.

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Good thing they mentioned konq

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey look more news about gnome, we better spend most of the writeup talking about kde and konq

Lolly lolly lolly get yer screenshot here

[1010011010]

http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/mirrors/galeon.pn g

and

http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/mirrors/galeon.jp g


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What I want in a browser.

[Faux_Pseudo]

Konq without X is cool but how about Netscape without X? You may ask yourself why. In order to access my bank online I have to use Netscape or IE. I am command line only at home and would love to have a framebufferd browser that is usable for this so I don't have to wait till I get to work and use one of their browsers. zen is a browser that will compile for gtk, qt or work from the framebuffer but its totaly useless for anything other than viewing a static page.

I want to see more development on command line only browsers to take advantage of older hardware or for people like myself who are GUI-impaired. One of the nice bennies of more development would be one could do $ getbankballence.sh | netscape --prompt4password. Now wouldn't that be cool in cron.

Some of the command line browsers out there, sorted by usefulness:

links

w3m

w3/emacs

lynx

zen

/. editors merely clever KDE trolls in disguise?

[tempest303]

Ok, I know this is a little petty, but is it just me, or does it seem like every time the Gnome or Mozilla projects do something cool, the /. editors posting the story just HAVE to mention Konqueror or KDE, especially in a context of "well, Mozilla is neat, but Konq can cure cancer, AIDS, and make your kid 25 IQ points smarter."

For all they talk about it, you'd think it has features like buttons for "Give head" and "Win Lottery." (Maybe those are in CVS?)