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Opera in OpenBSD -- I shoehorn it in

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on · 1 comment
Click; By Steven Rosenberg
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The realities of using OpenBSD on this old machine have had me booting Puppy more and more. The reason is that Firefox in OpenBSD can't handle posting to Movable Type. Scripts are constantly timing out, and the experience is more than a little frustrating. The Dillo browser runs great in OpenBSD. It doesn't have tabs, like some versions of Dillo do. But as an interface to something as complicated as Movable Type, Dillo won't work. Since then, I've discovered the free (but not open-source) browser Opera, which is a good deal faster than Firefox (or anything else based on Mozilla) and in Windows a great deal faster than Internet Explorer. Could Opera help me in OpenBSD?

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My /usr partition is completely packed, but I do need to test the following browsers in OpenBSD:

kazehakase

midori

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