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found this browser and had a try, rather light weighted at 35.5 MB. Only 64 bit available.
Posting from it now.

https://github.com/chzigotzky/Web-Brows ... C/releases

Thanks for the link.

Both SeaLion and BrassMonkey seem to be cut-down derivatives of SeaMonkey.

Both need Glibc >= 2.34

I am using Sealion on BookwormPup64 10.0.10

Downloaded the sealion-33.5.1.linux-x86_64.tar.xz
UN-compressed into directory sealion.
Drag and dropped sealion (execute) file onto the desktop to run it from.

I placed the sealion directory on /mnt/home
Have several Puppy frugal installs using that location as /mnt/home
So, any of them can use this sealion directory and run it the same way.

I like it!

Seems to be very good and responsive.
Has all kinds of useful settings.
A lot of options for how it runs.

peebee wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 2:44 pm

Thanks for the link.

Both SeaLion and BrassMonkey seem to be cut-down derivatives of SeaMonkey.

Both need Glibc >= 2.34

Just figured that out meself. Simply a re-spin on SeaMonkey, but compiled under a very recent distro.....so will ONLY run under the very newest releases. Nowt special when all's said & done.

On the occasions when I use it, I believe I'll stick with the genuine article, thanks. They build theirs to work with as many distros as possible.... I understand the mind-set, though. Anybody with any sense should always be running the very newest, most up-to-date distros possible, so being compiled for recent stuff shouldn't be an issue.

Yup; I'm a dinosaur. I know it; y'all know it.... *sigh*

(*shrug...*)

Mike.

Pretty fun little browser we've got here. At first I was going to say OMG it's ugly, but when I rebooted it used my GTK4 Shades of Purple theme, and my chosen web page colors.

It's super fast and seems to render most pages adequately. Very similar to palemoon.

Looks interesting - tried to download source - link has md5 only. Tried to compile Seamonkey minimally in Fossapup64-9.5 - too many missing dependencies.

It's probably from here: https://github.com/wicknix/SeaLion

The developer has started a thread for it over at the Pale Moon forum, since it apparently uses the same Goanna/XUL platform "engine" as Pale Moon & Basilisk:-

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=30394

As @ozsouth has realised, it's a 'minimal' fork of Seamonkey. Mail/News are not included. You can, if you wish, however, install Chatzilla as an extension. Interestingly, the developer ("wicknix") has stated that he has no intention of building it for Windows, and is in the process of removing the Windows code from the source 'tree'...

There's hope for the human race yet!

Mike.

@Burunduk - thanks for that link. Sadly no joy. No instructions (that I could follow). Whatever happened to configure & make from the past?

Here's the config I tried to use (just in case someone can compile sealion with glibc2.27 - 2.30):

--host=linux-gnu --target=linux-gnu --enable-application=navigator MAKE=/usr/bin/make --disable-jxl --disable-crashreporter --disable-devtools --disable-gamepad --disable-gconf --disable-necko-wifi --enable-optimize --disable-precompile-startupcache --disable-pulseaudio --disable-safe-browsing --enable-strip --disable-tests --disable-updater --with-system-jpeg