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On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Honestly, if you want to use a lightweight webkit browser, you should
> probably look into uzbl. It's definitely not user friendly, but it's more
> likely to work on BL

I learned that uzbl was designed, recently, for Archlinux, which is mostly 
non-GUI, i686 or 64-bit, supposedly simple and efficient, and most likely 
is available as a binary for it if you want to test it out.  There is a 
core, browser, and tabbed browser, and it can be used entirely from the 
keyboard with customized keybindings.  Sounds very efficient and easy on 
computer memory.  So how big is it?

uzbl code itself is just over 100K but there are dependencies such as 
webkit, libsoup and gthread.

Webkit was created for Apple Safari browser.  Source for linux is 14.6MB.

Libsoup is a library for GNOME - does uzbl also need GNOME?  Source is 
941MB (stable) or 586KB (development).  (????)

Archlinux iso is about 350MB (7 hour download via bittorrent, which is 
included in Opera 9.64 and seems to download at 14K/sec over dialup).

Sindi