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Just downloaded this and gave it for a whirl. Running Ubuntu (Jaunty), it definitely felt buggy. (Which is ok, considering it's stage in development)

For starters, the window maximized height-wise past my screen and I couldn't resize it so I had trouble seeing everything (all I did was copy the default config)

Additionally, loading up YouTube.com in it made it grind to a crawl. Video loaded, but the front page took a good 10 second pause before it was fully loaded.

I like the idea though and I plan to tinker with it more in hopes that it is more ... uzbl :)



The chief performance issue is that the default cookies handler has to spin off a new process for every cookies handled and that can make things really slow. That might be the problem you are having now. There are better scripts available, but I can't tell you much about configuring them.


Thanks for the suggestion. I tried your below link on using cookie_daemon.py and it does indeed speed it up, especially on sites like YouTube (which I'm guessing is creating a lot of cookies on many of its pages) but unfortunately it's still not too speedy.

To be honest though I love the way you use it. A minimal browser with navigation mostly tied to the keyboard is awesome.


> the default cookies handler has to spin off a new process for every cookies handled

What? Why?


The default handler is a python script. Part of the design philosophy is to keep it separate from the browser itself.

There is an alternative: http://www.uzbl.org/news.php?id=14




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