It's weird, Midori is supposed to be able to run HTML5 stuff, webm, h.264 etc. And I have everything onboard it needs, Palemoon is working fine and it needs basically the same libraries, Chromium of course works....kinda stuck, I have seen some people reporting the same thing, but no answers for them have been posted. Sucks, it's very useable, pretty quick on startup, and with depends about half the size of palemoon and a third of the size of Chromium and FF.

@Nixer: Thanks for the heads-up, I will head that way now and give it a spin.

Still no joy with Midori and video....weird.

Too bad, I like it otherwise, but gonna have to give up on it for now.

Is there a way to do this if you don't have aptitude installed? I don't see a similar apt command....

Absolutely, and that's part of the fun for me, I could run a real lightweight distro easily enough, but you often have to sacrifice a lot to do so.

I have notes in Vuu-do about the subject of updates changing/adding things, all I can do is start it off small for folks that use it, after that they can choose to continue that policy or not. I do provide extensive documentation about what i've done and how folks can do it too though, it's not too hard, as mentioned above setting Bleachbit to do the work for you in one fell swoop is handy as a shirt pocket.

Semantics is all. It doesn't make Midori lighter, it makes the system lighter. Removing translations and other cruft. You will have to make a custom cleaner to deal with the docs in /usr/share/doc.

And it will remove some unwanted .debs, it has an Apt cleaning section and you can set it to delete the auto-removeables.

Cruft. there are thousands of packages in the repo in which the actual executables are a tiny fraction of the package size, some have changelogs that go back to the 90's and are huge.

I was looking at one today, it was listed in Synaptic at 613 kb, but 554 kb of that was all docs and none of them were any kind of manual or help in any form/

LOL!!

I actually felt like Handbrake had worn the monkey-face-of-shame.png for long enough, so last night I fired up Inkscape and started making PNG's from the SVG, worked great, I did tint2conf.svg too, it's another one that only had one SVG instead of individual PNG's but it wasn't a gigantic one like Handbrake had, but since i'm doing it I though I would do them all, so now my menu's have zero SVG's being used for icons. Nice and quick.

Wow, good info, thanks! Saving that for another case scenario, in this case Midori had a .deb on their site, had to add a couple of depends, then dpkg'ed the .deb in.

Doesn't seem quite as nice as last time I tried it, but it's certainly lightweight, the depends had some heft but not bad (and some of that will go bye-bye as soon as I run bleachbit).

On first glance, it takes some configuring, had to work to figure out how to put a Home button in the toolbar. And currently it's missing icons used for the new tab button, and also for the address bar, both places are giving me the little red X. It recommends gnome-icon-theme so i'm guessing maybe it's using a gnome-specific icon name for both...arrgh...have to check the damn source now and find out what it is, as I sure as hell ain't gonna re-install those icons.

ETA: Ahh, neither my main icon set or hicolor had the icons it wanted, found them in Adwaita by specifying a fallback in the ~/.gtkrc, will make some for Oxy2-ZEN.

I will take it for a spin the next week or two, it may work out. Certainly love to hear anyone else's impressions if they try it.

Ahh I see, it's not a conventional icon setup, some crazy svg stuff, looks like you need to run some script to generate more icon sizes, and all I see in the thing is an "apps" group of icons, no system icons of any kind.

Pass.

Sorry I couldn't help, maybe there's a .deb somewhere. Or even better if someone who has them installed would make a quick zip file of the actual icons.

Me I usually delete SVG's with great prejudice, the big ones especially drag menus to a crawl if you let programs use them, Libreoffice is especially bad, Handbrake only has one but it's even worse than the libre icons.

I just deleted more of them this morning in fact, and am about to get rid of the last one infesting my menu.

Deleted a big pile of pointless 512x512 PNG's too, and all the Adwaita 256x256's.

I have. Have tried all the ones in the repo and then some. Netsurf is kinda cool. For me personally I probably use Chromium the most, followed by Palemoon and then my little non-bloated python browser.

My concern is more for what I'm sending out with my little project distro, I want to make it nice, as much functionality as possible but still fast and lightweight.

Seems like I get to choose one of those three criteria and that's it, can't have all 3.

Palemoon does the same thing if you try to use it to open a pdf too. bummer. I really hate pdf's, but wife uses them so.....

Seems like the only game in town anymore with all the features is Chromium.

Finally found found a bug (I think) in Palemoon, it doesn't seem to know what to do with an .mhtml file. Chromium opens them up perfectly, but PM errors, it throws up a sort of "what do you want to do with this file? Open, save? thing, and when you click "open" it doesn't open it, throws up a new tab, and presents you with the same question box again, over and over.

Other than that, Palemoon does a good job, it does lag on opening some, but not as bad as Chromium has gotten and waaaaaaay better than FF.

185 kb to install python-webkit and throw up a tiny fast browser, vs 170 mb of Chromium and over 100 mb of FF, it's ridiculous really, I find myself using the python browser more and more. I'm guessing it wouldn't be too hard to solve the occasional crash caused by video or add some rules that blocks it and JS and such. I had it working great on Youtube for a while, isn't youtube all HTML5 now? Not going to add flash just to see, lol.

185 kb. <---the "massive bloated webkit", lololololol!