Gecko and his territory and FAT Browsers needing 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 browsers 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.

Currently I favour Midori, IceApe, Dillo and SeaMonkey and not Firefox.

FireFox is light on its own but easily get bloated over 100 MiB 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

• 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

• 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.

MOFO Linux-Porteus Derivative

With only 2 seeders and after severa;l days of waiting I manged to download MOFO Linux which is a derivative of Porteus (which is a derivative somewhat defunct SLAX).

I was particularly interested since its release stated it can be installed into hard disk but I could not find a install script.

It can be installed into a Flash drive with the ability to save data on Flash drive.

I did not try but that is what it says.

It has like Portues packed amazing array of packages in 379 MiB with lot of KDE utilities.

Same comment as for Portues hence I do not expand anymore.

It good that MOFO and Portues are keeping the traditions of SLAX.

Small and portable but packed with utilities and ability to download Modules.