Monday, July 21, 2008

How To Install An Alternative Lightweight Graphical Browser

The thing with browsers nowadays is the more you equip it with addons, plugins, and powerpack browser features, the heavier the load it gets and the slower your PC desktop runs. You could find a lot of browser tweaks and hacks to make your browser faster and works quicker than its default setup, what goes down the drain is how much memory footprints does your browsers take? With or without browser optimizations, tweaks and hacks, there should be an approximate value how much does your browser consumes up with your desktop memory. If you want to install an alternative lightweight graphical desktop, read on.

Introducing Kazehakase

Kazehakase is a graphical web browser which aims to provide a very simple graphical user interface that is truly user-friendly and fully customizable. Kazehakase uses Gecko for rendering HTML pages like Galeon and Epiphany. Here are its main features.


  • Tabbed Browsing

  • Bookmarks

  • Variable Toolbars

  • Customizable mouse gestures

  • Customizable key accelerator

  • Print Support


How To Install Kazehakase on Fedora

# yum -y install kazehakase

# kazehakase


If you will browse heavy sites like CNN or Yahoo!, kazehakase is not for you as those mentioned sites would require the latest flash and java versions not allowing you to proceed browsing the site.

You can visit more of Kazehakase project here.

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