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    Old 04-09-2008, 10:57 AM   #1 (permalink)
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    Features - There's another killer browser, and it ain't Google Chrome
    The web is alive with feverish discussion of Google Chrome. But Chrome will be forgotten in a week once we show you a true killer browser...
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    Old 04-09-2008, 11:01 AM   #2 (permalink)
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    Re: Features - There's another killer browser, and it ain't Google Chrome
    Rickroll protection Yes
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    Old 04-09-2008, 11:02 AM   #3 (permalink)
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    Re: Features - There's another killer browser, and it ain't Google Chrome
    I enjoyed that

    But seeings as you are deadly serious I shall give it a go
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    Old 04-09-2008, 11:07 AM   #4 (permalink)
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    Re: Features - There's another killer browser, and it ain't Google Chrome
    All you need these days is a very simple RSS reader.

    Chrome uses a lot of memory considering it's so fast - probably not so fast on a PC with no spare memory.
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    Old 04-09-2008, 11:11 AM   #5 (permalink)
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    Re: Features - There's another killer browser, and it ain't Google Chrome
    but FF does have rickroll protection: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/04/f...rotection.html .....

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    Old 04-09-2008, 11:16 AM   #6 (permalink)
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    Re: Features - There's another killer browser, and it ain't Google Chrome
    ROFLMAO, well actually just brought a tear to my eye but a damn good read. Always nice to see a hype-killer article
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    Old 04-09-2008, 11:34 AM   #7 (permalink)
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    Best thread today.

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    Old 04-09-2008, 11:35 AM   #8 (permalink)
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    Love it
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    Old 04-09-2008, 11:43 AM   #9 (permalink)
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    lynx sucks

    use links2.
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    Old 04-09-2008, 11:50 AM   #10 (permalink)
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    Re: Features - There's another killer browser, and it ain't Google Chrome
    Don't forget to Digg it

    http://digg.com/software/There_s_ano..._Google_Chrome

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    Re: Features - There's another killer browser, and it ain't Google Chrome
    Browser memory consumption, on HEXUS front page ("Resident Memory" value shown in gnome-system-monitor, Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit

    Links 2.1pre32: 3.3 MiB
    eLinks 0.11.3: 5.9 MiB
    Lynx 2.8.6re1.4: 4.8 MiB
    w3m 0.5.1+cvs-1.968: 5.5 MiB

    and, for completeness, amazing graphical browsers which support the <img> tag:
    Dillo 0.8.6-i18n-misc: 14.8 MiB
    Links 2.1pre32 (graphical mode): 10.4 MiB
    Funnybrowser 0.2 (200-line .NET tech demo browser based on webkit w/ full CSS/JS): 52.6 MiB
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    Re: Features - There's another killer browser, and it ain't Google Chrome
    Hex, you forgot one:

    wget then open the downloaded file in vim.

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    Re: Features - There's another killer browser, and it ain't Google Chrome
    the bit i loved the most about that article was definitely the ascii graphs, genius
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    Re: Features - There's another killer browser, and it ain't Google Chrome
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    Hex, you forgot one:

    wget then open the downloaded file in vim.
    wget and pipe it to vim, no need for wasting hdd space! It is the UNIX way.
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    What's next, semaphore, smoke signals?
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