I’m looking for a browser which is very light on memory & CPU. and has ad blocking feature/support.
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Opening multiple pages, and have them keep open for a very long time
Viewing videos
Viewing videos
FF, Chrome, IR are already ruled out by me.
- Chrome use the MOST memory, run chrome and hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and see the chrome activity. 3 x chrome !
- If you have Linux, try out the Midori browser. It's available in the software manager and its the lightest browser I know.
- Try Crazy Browser ( http://crazybrowser.com ).
- This link shows that Opera is best in terms of memory consumption :shams
- Comparing Opera With Firefox.
Opera Browser is very light On Memory & CPU. - How about getting off of Windows XP and something more modern? That'll speed things up.
- No...I would suggest if you are low on resources stick to Windows XP. Tried and tested.
- Reall good advice. I would recommend a windows 8 release preview dual boot with xp. Gives performance better than xp.
- I use FireFox version 3.6 which is still a 'modern' browser but is no longer being maintained by Mozilla. It is very light on RAM. I use it on older, under RAM'd laptops and it works just fine. You can still find copies of it on the 'net - either as an install or as a portable.
- Whatever you choose, just remember that adding extensions/plugins will increase its memory usage.
- Opera is one of the lightest
- You should try Opera or Qupzilla. I use both on my netbook with Intel Atom processor and 1 Gb memory, and Opera runs really fast, even with several extensions like an ad blocker, WOT and Lastpass. However, Qupzilla is lightweight and comes with an ad-blocker built-in, but doesn't offer addons at this time. Chrome, with just some addons, becomes a little sluggish on a low-ram computer/VM. So, I think Opera and Qupzilla are great choices.
- Try opera or Maxthon.
- you can try avant browser or maxthon
- each browser has its own point, but to visit websites that are loaded with stuff, you sure need some memory. try chrome, or Opera. check their portable verrsions, they might effect less on CPU.
- You could try Comodo Dragon, it is a version of Chrome. I have been using it for years, is stable and I often will have a dozen or so tabs open and 2 to 3 pages, with no issues.
- Try opera,k-meleon,safari,waterfox,pale-moon,sea-monkey,Wyzo is optimized for downloads and online media,epic browser,CometBird is a powerful and fast web browser...there are alot of them...but some off these above are lightware and for surfing and media online with a low memory and cpu consumption.
- For me, Google Chrome (latest version is 21 at this time) is the fastest and less memory hog browser, I use it for viewing video on an old Aspire One netbook, I combine it with AdBlock.The performance on video playing (flash/silverlight) is better than Firefox or IEGoogle Chrome should work fine on 512Mb RAM
- a suggestion for GrrGrr Have you tried Comodo Dragon and Dragon Ice I love mine Never have a problem and Top Notch Security
- Comodo Dragon is excellent from the security perspective, but it is not very light on resources. :) It is built on Chrome features with hardened security features built in. :)
- Try Opera..very easy to work with, customize to your liking..rarely crashes, tons of features, add on's or use as is..Works for me!
- Thanks to all for their suggestions so farThere is a tie between Chrome/Firefox/Opera
However, as Chrome starts a new process for each tab- it gets heavier with each new tab, eating more CPU & Memory. So ruling out ChromeLeft options Firefox/OperaI see following new names (new caz I have never used them)
1. K-Meleon
2. PaleMoon
3. Maxthon
4. CoolNovo
5. elinks
6. Qupzilla
7. Midori
8. AvantSo, I will now rephrase my question, as to which of the above 8 are good for my use with 1Gb RAM on XP running in VMware.- I would suggest to try K-Meleon.
- I was in a similar fix on my old laptop...it had celeron1.7 GHz processor,1 GB Ram and 100GB HD and running Windows 7 Ultimate. Chrome hogged too much memory but Firefox came as lifesaver(specially when working with many tabs open). Also try the portable version(you can install Adblockplus) too. Hope it helps. Btw, I still have that laptop and use FF even on my new laptop.
- That's a really good question.Have you tried using portable app versions of Firefox? Portable versions tend to run on almost anything. Whatever issue you may be having might go away. My 233 MHz Thinkpad 600 (upgraded to 366 MHz) seemed to do just fine running portable apps from a USB drive. IIRC it had 190-something MBs of RAM. Portable apps did support ad-block, last I recall.Anyway, according to this article, the lowest RAM using browser is from Avant. It supports ad-blocking and uses the least amount of memory out of all the browsers out there. I'm not sure what rendering engine it uses, unfortunately.
- Grr now try Midori...
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its light weight and but i don't know it for you or not... - I'm a very big Chrome fan, but the newest versions of firefox look to consume less memory than Chrome, so in my opinion you should try the latest version of Firefox.
- Chrome makes my computer very slow with many tabs open. Firefox is still best.
- Imo, here's a few suggestions:
1. you can afford it, upgrade your system, whether that be a new computer, new operating system, or new hardware parts. XP support going to be ended relatively soon, just skip vista and go to windows 7, or 8 (when its available)if you're inclined.
2. If you're really against chrome, I would suggest Opera. However, I think once you have experienced Chrome on a system that's more capable of handling it, you really will like it. I've personally used chrome portable and it's not meant to be run from a flash drive. Also, chrome has plenty of extensions available for it that help in every day browsing.
3. You definitely want adblock installed, and there's also an extension which allows you to load up multiple YouTube videos in multiple tabs and stop the autoplay feature, while the videos load, which really nice.- I meant to say, 'If' you can afford it...
- Lifehacker recently tested different browsers for speed and RAM usage. Firefox came out the winner. Link: http://lifehacker.com/5917714/browser-speed-tests-chrome-19-firefox-13-internet-explorer-9-and-opera-1164?tag=browsersI personally find Chrome the snappiest with Opera in close second. Firefox is the slowest when too many windows are opened and it has the tendency of locking up the whole window when 1 tab is non-responsive.
- try:
1. Opera (opera>Settings>Options>Advanced>Content>check 'plugins on demand' = to selectively load objects) and for Ad Block use https://addons.opera.com/es/extensions/details/opera-adblock/
2. Firefox add AdBlock Plus and any fash block to selectively load objects.
3. Chrome add Addblock plus for chrome
4. K-meleon
5. Qupzilla - Firefox. Chrome is ok but does create a lot of processes.
- as some other guy here suggested...try upgrading Chrome...better yet, try CoolNovo (also based on Chromium, but better in my oppinion). I am not sure if mobile versions are available, but laptops and PCs are very happy to have it (Win and Linux alike). I have no idea how, but about an year ago, it was visibly faster than Chrome was (test was done on Windows using 6 tabs that were needed to reload faster than a full cycle through them was done by the tester - or as fast as possible. Done using Safari, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, CoolNovo at that moment).
- Give Opera a try... I think it has some kind of options to selectively load objects.
- You really should be trying the most up to date versions of browsers before you eliminate them. Especially with Chrome being relatively new the bug fixes and memory leaks are the first things they fix/
- Mozilla Firefox!
- see this browser speed test: http://lifehacker.com/5917714/browser-speed-tests-chrome-19-firefox-13-internet-explorer-9-and-opera-1164Mozilla Firefox takes less memory with tabs open.Also, you might want to try Maxthon Browser
- Oops.. I forgot to give the link for maxthon: http://www.maxthon.com
- I use a few browsers and for me Maxthon is by far the fastest :)
FF is slow and bulky..
Opera is my 3rd choice..
Chrome is a little fussy at times but it's ok. - Opera may not be light on CPU
if smooth scrolling is ON, CPU usage will jump/spike up when you scroll - You can try PaleMoon, it's an optimized version of Firefox.
- Download the latest version of chrome and use
download link (www.easydownloads.us/software/google_chrome.htm)
and go to settings >show advanced settings>content settings> on the Plugins section select 'click to play' ..
it will automatically block all flash based ads ..Note: you need to click to enable plugin (if you need to run plugin like videos in youtube or someother ..) - Top Ten Reviews lists 10 browsers and their advantages and disadvantages.
- I would say Firefox!
- May I ask why you're eliminating Firefox and Chrome? I also noticed that you're sporting Chrome 12. Have you considered updating it to the current version?
- yes, i'm on Chrome12 portable. it eats a lot of memory compared to Firefox.
so i have ruled it out, and also IE- but the latest chrome version is version 21 :o
- also you can try opera for light weight, but the experience on chrome is unmatched. Also safari will load up after 3-4 tabs.
And any browser will load up after 4 tabs!- 7 tabs and no problem whatsoever, on chrome :D
- Yeah, I'd at least try updating to Chrome's latest release before passing final judgement on it.
- you could try opera or safari but personally i think chrome and firefox are the best
- Unfortunately, K-meleon gets crashed often.
- Try K-Meleon browser from the site http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ .
- Alco ckeckout this URL for other lightweight broswer suggestions : http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-web-browser-lightweight.htm
- it lists a lot of them, but no comparison as to which one is the best.
- I would suggest K-Meleon browser.
- Try opera... It is far more better than FF.
- You could always try Opera. It doesn't seem to be a resource hog on my system, but I don't use it every day and when I do, it is generally for less than 1 hour at a time.
To on the internet websites to be able to visit, you make use of an internet browser.
The most commonly used browser was Internet Explorer because this is standard in Windows is included. At this time, Google Chrome is the world's most popular. However, there are many other browsers which is also free to download. Opera for example is a freeware browser with many features and is suitable for almost any device.
Opera is a browser that you can download for free and use it for as well as all mobile and desktop devices. The freeware program is developed by a organization in Norway.
Opera is especially known for the extensive possibilities that comes standard with the browser, and the excellent security. So there is by default an anti-phishing filter built in that the user must protect against privacy violations.
Opera has some very advanced features by default in the browser integrated, such as: support of mouse gestures, support of keyboard navigation, support for touch screens, web pages read aloud, built-in RSS reader, etc.
From Opera 11 supports the browser extensions which extend the functionality even further can be extended. Opera also has a portable version of the Opera browser was released, making the Opera browser from for example a USB stick can be started.
Opera Turbo is a feature in which the loading of websites faster. Because this function makes use of a proxy server allows you to Opera easily visit sites by the isp to be blocked (such as The Pirate Bay). To Opera Turbo to turn on, click the Turbo icon in the status bar and select the option to Turbo by default, to turn it on.
The Opera browser even includes an integrated BitTorrent client and a news groups readers. So you can directly from the browser download files without having a separate client to install.
Since 2013 Opera using the WebKit layout engine for displaying web pages. This is the same engine as, among other things, Google Chrome running on it. Developed a layout engine named Presto. By here from to steps the developers have more time to devote to adding new features.
After the developer is switched to another browser engine, there is also no e-mail client more in the browser integrated. That e-mail client now as a separate download.
Opera is available for Windows (32 - and 64-bit), Mac (32 - and 64-bit), Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating systems. Also offers Opera browsers for mobile phones under the name of Opera Mini.
Opera has the following features:
- free web browser,
- fraud protection,
- integrated RSS reader,
- block specific content in order to save bandwidth,
- thumbnail on tab of the internet screen when your mouse hovers over, so you can quickly find where the window is what you are looking for is located,
- widgets, the additional tools that you can download for functionality,
- integrated spelling checker,
- built-in BitTorrent download application,
- add your own favorite search engine,
- site preferences adjust, so can you, for example, cookies ward off certain sites,
- gestures, by means of a gesture with the computer mouse to perform a command. This provides a considerable gain of time during the browsing,
- password management functions,
- passwords syncing between Opera browsers on different computers,
- pop-up blocking,
- appearance of the web browser customize by using themes,
- ability to pages to display like a book where the text is automatically adjusted to the width of the browser page,
- easy self-portraits via the webcam through integration with services such as Photo Booth and Polaroid,
- voice support, you can have websites read aloud by Opera,
- Opera Turbo, a feature to make sites faster to load.
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