Nuxified GNU/Linux Help Forums - Fast forward with a Kazehakase web browser - Comments

Gmail works fine for me.

StevenBrady — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:10:28 +0200

Gmail works fine for me. Which version of the browser are you using?

Gmail does not work

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:39:07 +0200

I would love to try this browser -- but gmail does not work, I can't even log in...

Thanks. Good to be back.

StevenBrady — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:30:00 +0200

Thanks. Good to be back.

wb

a thing — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:05:51 +0200

Long time no see Welcome back.

Thanks man, I missed that

libervisco — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:21:37 +0200

Thanks man, I missed that option. Yeah I agree it is a good option to have. As long as I can turn it on if I need it, it's great.

Quote: Among some other

StevenBrady — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:21:33 +0200

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Among some other annoyances is that the address bar in Kazehakase doesn't display previously visited URL's when typing a new URL. For example, in Firefox and most other browsers I only have to type a letter "n" and the drop down menu will show the most visited URL's starting with "n", in my case Nuxified.org. In Kazehakase I either have to type the whole URL myself, or manually open the drop down menu and select the site from the history list.

You can turn that feature on by going to: Edit > Preference > Entry > Use auto-completion in URL entry box

I personally love that they give the option, but by default it's turned off. I know on many slower systems that I've been running web browsers on, I begin to type a URL, then I have to literally wait for the dropdown list to appear. On fast systems it's not really a worry, but when creating a lightweight browser that is to be used on older systems, it's a great feature to not have.

Some of the functionality

tbuitenh — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:50:26 +0200

Some of the functionality provided by extensions in firefox (especially adblock, flashblock and perhaps mediaplayerconnectivity and greasemonkey) could be provided by privoxy.

Once kazehakase becomes stable and usable enough, I may switch to that combined with privoxy.

Shows promise, but...

greyspace — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:13:26 +0200

...v0.4.4.1 is a near-complete complete non-starter for me under Ubuntu 6.10. I may have overlooked or botched something in the configure/make process; but when I start it I get a grey box with a find-in-page dialog at the bottom, and no other widgets at all. stdout complains of not being able to find icons and an XML file, and Gtk throws a failed assertion. Perhaps I can get 'round it by changing some paths in the configuration. At any rate, I'm off to the support mailing list now.

I'll be watching this one, whether or not I'm able to get the current release running. I'm desperate for a well-featured alternative to Firefox, with has been (for me) nothing but a crash-happy bloatmonster since about version 1.5. (Incidentally, Opera and SeaMonkey don't behave much better.)

Thanks for the story.

I'm trying it right now! It

tbuitenh — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:10:21 +0200

I'm trying it right now! It seems a bit buggy, but I like the compact UI layout.

Fast forward with a Kazehakase web browser

libervisco — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:47:02 +0200

The second most popular web browser in the world, Firefox, is a beautiful, but heavy machine. Its biggest attraction are tabs, flexible bookmarks and RSS management, and extensions. However for people who are still using systems with no abundance of main memory it can be a pain intensively using Firefox throughout a day or longer. It is just that memory hungry. So some people have been looking at alternatives such as Epiphany, Galeon, Konqueror, or even the lightest but arguably ugliest and least featureful among them, Dillo. But as it usually happens, out of nowhere comes another alternative, one which may be hitting the right balance that many people are looking for. It is NGLayout (Gecko)-based Kazehakase (made by Japanese developers).

Its aim is to be lightweight (small memory footprint) and yet modern, user friendly, fully functional and innovative at that. And in its early releases it seems to be accomplishing just that.