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New lightweight "Min" browser for lightweight fans


Hedon James

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Looks interesting. I have installed it in Debian Jessie in VirtualBox. Using 308 MB with the system running, system monitor and Min. Min itself takes up about 100 MB.

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I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. Beat me to it Ray! You and I seem to have very similar outlooks and tastes in computing matter, so I'm interested in hearing your thoughts & opinions! B)

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It's in the AUR apparently. Maybe I'll try an install in Linux Mint as the .deb package is already out there.

 

Yup,

 

comhack@Cerberus ~ % pacaur -Ss min-browser-bin
 aur/min-browser-bin 1.2.2-1 (7, 5.43)
 A faster, smarter web browser.

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Installed it in Manjaro using yaourt. Build successful and posting from it now. It takes about about 100MB of RAM installed on the rails as well.

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Cluttermagnet

I had filed this away and just now got around to trying it on my

modest laptop (Lenovo R61). It was pretty easy to get it installed

once I navigated to their web page. I'm using it now in Linux Mint

17 Mate. Seems pretty, ah, minimal, but OTOH it is a lot more

than just a text reader. It renders Scot's site about as normal as I

could expect. It has tabs (to a small degree). I'll play with it for a while.

So it's obviously a minimally featured graphic browser. Cool...

 

I have this laptop over at Casa Betty right now, so I could snort down

all the latest updates to Linux Mint over a cable broadband pipe.

Lately this box has been getting limited internet over a dialup link,

over at Casa Clutter. So I think this browser may prove very welcome

if it is stable. Midori tended to stumble at times; Firefox was sluggish

but actually way more stable for some reason. I think this lightweight

software might get the job done a little faster.

 

They say you can block scripts with min. I think I better turn that on.

The minute I navigated to Scot's site it began warning me and

snatched me away. I had to tell it that's OK...

 

Funny, they chose a blue and orange icon, simple and geometric, so

that mimics FF to some degree. Well, this should be fun to play with.

I'll report back later...

 

Clutter

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Can someone confirm that the keystrokes "mod + r" are the

same as "Ctrl + r"? I have never, ever run across a "mod"

key in all my life. Is that some sort of smart phone term?

I don't have one of those smart phone thingies. All I have

are beaucoup desktops and a few lappies.

 

I also tried other combos such as "Fn + r" and "Alt + r"

and "Windows key + r", but only "Ctrl + r" seems to refresh

a tabbed website. It happens pretty fast but I think I see

it refresh with the "Ctrl + r".

 

They have some commands in their short list that use the

Shift key, no problem there- but there are also a couple

of items that use something called "option". I don't know

that one either. This thing smells of command line. They

don't have it all gussied up for lazy bums like myself who

like to do most things graphically, drag and drop, etc.

Heh!

 

Off I go to stub my toes some more...

 

Edit: Ah, OK- you type the letters "m...o...d" then you hit "Ctrl + r".

D'oh! Homer Simpson slaps himself across the forehead...

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The mod (moderator) key is generally always the ALT or WIN key on your keyboard so that is kind of odd that they want you to spell it out. The mod key is heavily used in Tiling window managers as they are keyboard driven.

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