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Originally Posted by sulu View Post
Xpra is great for moving X windows from one device to another. As far as I can tell it works without flaws as long as there's no 3D involved.
The only downside is you need to know in advance which windows you might want to move because you need to start the program via xpra in the first place.
Definitely good to know. I've never actually been in a situation where I needed to move an X window from one device to another, but that's still pretty nifty.

btw:
I tried Iceweasel via framebuffer but it doesn't work. So either it's a feature long gone or my memory simply played tricks on me.
Netsurf on the other hand is in principle able to run on framebuffers, but it has a bug which results in a black screen when starting netsurf-fb this way.
There's supposedly a workaround for that by telling netsurf which color depth to use [1] but it didn't work for me.


[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/vi...12215&p=132573
I don't even think Firefox is meant to be run in anything not an X environment, unfortunately. Someone in the Arch forums was asking about that and got some StackOverflow links thrown at them explaining why it wouldn't work out.

I tried out Netsurf. Definitely a very very nice, lightweight browser with some good defaults. I couldn't work out if it had a Javascript blacklist, however. From what I've gathered, it does not, which is a shame. That's truly an indespensible feature to me. Cookie blacklists don't mean that much in a modern-day browser without it IMHO.

No lie though; you weren't kidding about Midori looking bloated in comparison.