Browser Competition

[dkeg]

thanks drew, can you check

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watch "cat /proc/$(pidof vimb)/status|grep VmSize" 

from the splash page for me, please?

You can also use

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pmap $(pidof vimb)

VmSize: 254848 kB

David, yes, its light and fast. No tabs, no extensions. If in youtube it creeps up of course.

[ivanovnegro]

What about ad blocking?

Edit: Never mind, I guess through host files.

[machinebacon]

Thanks dkeg, this is the updated list:

netrik		2724 kB
links		5804 kB
w3m		7328 kB
lynx		9488 kB
links		12540 kB
xlinks2		13380 kB
elinks		15176 kB
dillo		22568 kB
edbrowse	33820 kB
netsurf		101560 kB
surf		155148 kB
Xombrero	169428 kB
dwb		179028 kB
uzbl-core	190996 kB
vimb		254848 kB
Iceweasel	480032 kB
google-chrome	604656 kB

[ivanovnegro]

Incredible Bacon. Thanks for this stuff.

[wuxmedia]

graph-tastic!
What does the winner get?

[GekkoP]

^ An apt-get install!

[machinebacon]

I promise the next graph will be produced using GNUplot!

[franksinistra]

this has turned into awesomeness, graph!!

[simgin]

The honourable mathematician, professor Julius Bacon. Are you doing a Phd in columns? Looks properly good, and thanks for the hard work +1.

cheerio

simon

[Snap]

Thanks for the research, bacon. Really interesting. Made want to test some browsers. uzbl is amazingly smooth for video streaming. Next stop netsurf. It's supposed to work in the framebuffer.

[dkeg]

how can you guys use uzbl for more than a few minutes w/o it crashing? I wanted it to work, but it turned out to be one of the worst experieces.

[machinebacon]

^ I didn't use it for even a minute. It never worked. I just grabbed the memory size and killed the pid.

[archvortex]

Guys, thanks for posting comments about uzbl. I won't waste my time. Midori's turn next. Low memory usage on Arch and Gentoo.

[ivanovnegro]

^ That crashy little bitch. :)

[simgin]

^ Yup, her face looks like a car crash :D

[noo_b_nomnoms]

Looks like I need to run away from my go to Iceweasel. I haven't had a whole lot of luck with Netsurf, but maybe I'm not doing it right. Thanks for the excellent breakdown, Machinebacon!

[darry1966]

Hi Julius have you tried Palemoon? I use it on my updated Popcornlite seems to work better than the latest Weasel.

[machinebacon]

^ no, for the comparison I could have gone into more detail but didn't see much advantage of doing so:

- Firefox
- Firefox Beta
- Firefox Aurora
- Chromium
- Chrome Beta
- Chrome Unstable
- Kazehakase
- Galeon
- Chimera
- retawq
...

Also simply too much work. I usually use links in TTY, and Chrome in X, you can imagine how dirty I felt after I had installed all this bloated webkit crap :) To some extent, sometimes even links is too bloated for me - wikipedia pages and other "reading" material I fetch with html2text, news with nrss or gnus. Only when I post here on the BBQ I switch on the big browser.

[dkeg]

For sure different use cases for active or passive browsing. And I completely undetstand that dirty WebKit feeling. Vimb and surf have not disappointed though. I can't remember the last time I opened iceweasel.

Generally speaking, to give MB some backing, there are for sure a shit ton of browsers, and many not covered. If you feel the need, put in the effort. We are all listening.

[ivanovnegro]

Pale Moon just behaves like an older Firefox. Nothing special in the end. I already tried it. Won't make cool graphs, Bacon already did it. :)