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See also Replacing web browser components

Privacy ∞

• Tor takes some version of Firefox, builds a more secure version of it, and plugs it into an anonymizing onion router network.

• Though I've tried Ad-blocking with Polipo and adzapper, I haven't tried chaining Polipo (+adzapper) + Privoxy + Tor

Dead projects ∞

Old notes noted from 2006-04-04 or earlier, just dumped here out of interest.

• cheetah.sourceforge.net -- in development

  • "a project that has been started to create a fully functional, light-weight, bloat-free web browser for Linux (and other free unix clones) that is not dependent on KDE, GNOME or Mozilla."
• https://web.archive.org/web/20190108083527/http://www.beonex.com:80/communicator/ -- forked from Netscape Navigator, with the standard set of known flaws. It's stale too. Why bother with this when I could go get something that's trying to get better?
• http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/express/ -- stillborn 1999-05-08 has 0.0.7
• grail.sourceforge.net -- stillborn

• https://web.archive.org/web/20090905122939/http://pauillac.inria.fr:80/~rouaix/mmm/ -- stillborn 1997-12 has 0.41

  • MMM is a WWW browser implemented in Objective Caml using its CamlTk41 interface to Tcl/Tk.
• mnemonic.org -- dead. Website dead.
• http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/pad++/ -- closed there, and dead here: https://web.archive.org/web/20070804150554/http://hci.ucsd.edu/pad++/ (2001-11-08 has 0.9)

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080412115837/http://perso.enst.fr:80/~dauphin/mMosaic/ - multicast Mosaic -- dead. no configure script either. 3.7.2

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20050212124622/http://www.uni-mainz.de:80/~szukw000/index.html - has 2004-02-24 has 3.8.22.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080704053051/http://www.pick.ucam.org/peru/index.html -- unready

  • a free web browser, written in C using the GTK libraries, and the gtk port of the xmhtml widget.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20041128080645/http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de:8080/wafe/Cineast/ -- Looks neat, but quiet.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120915154245/http://seanm.ca:80/mosaic/ -- NCSA mosaic modified to compile on today's systems. Good for gophering!