Mini Browsers Gone Defunct

 Posted on October 8, 2011

Mini Browsers Gone defunct

Gecko and his territory and FAT Browsers needing Diet Cola 

 

Diet Cola
Gecko and his territory
I wanted to write about the Gecko, the Firefoxe’s background engine thinking it is a little browser.
It is not.
It is a layout engine for multiple browsers that originated in the fold of Linux background.
It takes the content and formatting information and displays on the browser's bland screen.
Gecko has been known previously by the code names “Raptor”
I have decided to support the lightest browser in the line of Abiword as the lightest but a very powerful word processor.

I faintly remembered about its Linux origin. Most of them are defunct except Dillo.
 

Currently I favour Midori, IceApe, Dillo and SeaMonkey and not Firefox.
FireFox is light on its own but easily get bloated over 100MB with cookies.
 

IceApe
Download size: 10.27 MB
Installed size: 29.44 MB
Package filename: iceape-browser_2.0.11-5_i386.deb
Source package: iceape
 

SeaMonkey
Download size: 19.65 MB
Installed size: 48.37 MB
Package filename: seamonkey-2.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Source package: seamonkey-2.4-1.el6.src.rpm
 

Dillo
Download size: 441.81 KB
Installed size: 1.04 MB
Package filename: dillo-2.1.1-1.ssl.i386.rpm
Source package: dillo-2.1.1-1.ssl.src.rpm
 

wget
Download size: 480.73 KB
Installed size: 1.79 MB
Package filename: wget-1.12-1.4.el6.i686.rpm
Source package: wget-1.12-1.4.el6.src.rpm
 

Lynx

This is probably the oldest one.
Download size: 1.38 MB
Installed size: 5.15 MB
Package filename: lynx-2.8.7-7.fc16.x86_64.rpm
Source package: lynx-2.8.7-7.fc16.src.rpm
 

Links
Download size: 1.81 MB
Installed size: 2.87 MB
Package filename: links-2.2-13.fc15.i686.rpm
Source package: links-2.2-13.fc15.src.rpm
 

Midori

I loved this unfortunately gone defunct.
Download size: 53.20 KB
Installed size: 599.80 KB
Package filename: midori-devel-0.3.6-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Source package: midori-0.3.6-1.fc15.src.rpm
 

I could not find a single article in the web stating their download size (compressed) and installed size.

This information is mandatory when new releases are made and they should also give a breakdown of the size of the cookies allowed when fully integrated.