What other browsers work on RPi?

Fergus,

  There is a text-mode browser called lynx that is fast, but it doesn't

do graphics or javascript.  I recommend it if it meets your needs.

   There is a browser called chromium that does do graphics and javascript,

and html5, and I think the javascript is faster than midori, but it probably uses

more memory than midori.

   lynx should be easy to install.  I'm not sure about chromium.

you can probably find more using google.

Thanks coder, will test later

Fergus, your first port of call with Midori should be to disable scripts in Edit->Preferences->Behavior. You'll find that Midori suddenly becomes a lot more responsive, just because the poor thing won't get slugged to death by inept Javascript devs.

For a longer and much more satisfying diatribe against webbies, see this other thread -->  http://www.element14.com/community/message/53557#53557

Morgaine.

You can install chromium by typing sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

The initial page shows up pretty fast, however if it's got to do additional requests for various JS libraries and addons like twitter, fb or ad engines, they tend to slow it down and despite you have the whole page loaded, you can't really do anything for a while (something like adblock would be helpful here).

one other browser is NetSurf.

The raspbian guys are saying good things about it.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=8438&start=28

A big thanks for the tip!  I tried out a couple images last weekend and used NetSurf.  It's a breath of fresh air indeed.  No JS means some sites don't function correctly (like this one, oy) but it is so much better than trying to interpret pages as pure text in lynx or pulling out my hair waiting for midori to load pages.

Thanks!

Drew

I was just wondering, since I am new to RPi, where is the best place to buy the latest RPi with color lcd, ethernet, and SIM card reader?  I only have $33.00 in my budget.  Please help.  thanks. 

This really needs it's own thread, but, is this $33.00 on top of the cost of a Pi, and which country do you live in?

You don't say what type or size of LCD you are contemplating and if you want a for example 7" you are looking in the late $80 - late $100.00 range. If you are thinking more like a phone display using I2C then you'll have some programming to do to get those to run.

The Pi comes with an ethernet connection unless you are referring to the 'A' type Pi which hasn't to my knowledge been released yet.  Sim card reader are you confusing that with an SD card reader?  I purchased an SD card reader from E-14 for about AU$ 6.00.

Midori is one of many (over half a dozen) lightweight browsers all based on webkit.  Most of them have a single-page paradigm, but a few support tabs as well --- Midori and Uzbl-tabbed are the best known for that.

If Midori is giving you trouble, you might want to try some of the others.  I only care about open source ones, and of those, the ones I use occasionally other than Midori are:

• Uzbl http://www.uzbl.org (come in three varieties, one of them tabbed)
• LuaKit http://www.luakit.org
• Jumanji http://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji
• Surf http://surf.suckless.org/

Of those, only LuaKit gets any significant use here.  Other similar lightweight browsers that I haven't tried personally but are also open source are:

• Qupzilla http://www.qupzilla.com/
• Arora http://code.google.com/p/arora/

which don't appear to be available in Gentoo's Portage which may indicate that they have problems, or simply that they are new.  There's certainly no shortage of alternatives if Midori doesn't fit the bill.

Morgaine.

Have you tried NetSurf (which coder27 mentioned earlier) Morgaine, and if so what do you think of it?