Dillo

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Dillo is a small (~350 kB), very fast, and Free minimalistic multi-platform web browser written in C using the [[GTK+]] graphical toolkit which was first released in December 1999.

It is particularly suitable for older or smaller computers (such as the PlayStation 2) and embedded systems. In addition to its small size, Dillo is very security conscious- cookies are disabled by default, for instance. Dillo is available for most POSIX-compliant Unix platforms, including GNU/Linux, BSD and Mac OS X. As of June 2005, the current version is 0.8.5. Due to its small size Dillo is also the browser of choice for many space-conscious Linux distributions including Damn Small Linux and Feather Linux.

Dillo, as of release 0.8.5, has no support for CSS, JavaScript, or Java. Support for frames is very limited: Dillo makes each frame a link, then shows the NOFRAMES portion of the page in question. There is no support for tabs and encoding selection in official releases, but these features are available in third-party patches. Third-party patches also exist to support antialiasing of text and non-Latin characters.

Currently, development efforts are focused not on adding more features, but in porting Dillo from the GTK+ toolkit to the FLTK2 graphics toolkit and improving the protypical support for SSL, as well as working on a framework to allow plugins to be easily written and included, like for Firefox.

Dillo for Windows screenshot: [1]

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