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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@ DMcCunney - I 'installed' the portable version, works fine in my scenario, in fact better than chrome. Assuming nothing goes skew-whiff over the next couple of days, qupzilla will replace chrome as my calibre-server browser 
Thanks a lot for the tip - BR |
You're quite welcome.
Qupzilla is something I found looking for the lightest weight browser available.
One machine here is an ancient (circa 2005) Fujitsu Lifebook p2110 notebook. It was a pass-along from a friend who upgraded but loved it and didn't want to simply throw it out.
It has a 787mhz Transmeta Crusoe CPU (and older attempt at power saving), a 40GB IDE4 HD, ATI Mobility graphics powering a 1280x800 screen, and a whopping 256MB RAM, of which the CPU grabs 16MB off the top for code morphing. The person who gave it to me said it was "Slow slow slow." No surprise: it came to me with WinXP Pro SP2 installed, and XP wants 512MB RAM bare minimum to think about working. I took 8 minutes to simply boot, and longer to actually do anything.
It became a test bed to see what performance I could wring out of ancoient hardware without throwing money at it. I reformatted and re-partitioned the hard drive, installing Win2K Pro SP4 on an NTFS slike, Ununtu and Puppy Linux on two ext4 8GB slices, and FreeDOS on a 2GB FAT32 slice, multi-booting through Grub2. WinNT actually runs in 256MB RAM. Ubuntu required a custom install to get adequate performance. Puppy is intended for low end hardware. FreeDOS flew.
Browsing was an issue. Under 2K, I used IE6 on the rare instances I wanted it to connect to the outside world. Puppy bundled Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1 as combo browser and email, but SM 1.1 was increasing behind in standards support, and would not get updated. SeaMonkey 2.x could not be built small enough. I didn't even try to run a current Firefox - it would take 45 seconds to simply invoke, and was perceptibly sluggish when up. Chrome and Opera loaded faster, but I didn't care for Opera. Qupzilla was one of an assortment of Webkit based browsers, was small enough and efficient enough, and was currently maintained and supported. It was also cross-platform and ran on other things I had.
The Fujitsu is largely retired now, but it was fun to configure and I learned things in the process.
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Dennis