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What is the lightest web browser available?

  • 25-07-2008 3:29am
    #1
    eskimo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 682 ✭✭✭


    Anybody know what the lightest, least-memory-consuming web-browser available for windows Vista is?


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  • #2
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    eskimo wrote: »
    Anybody know what the lightest, least-memory-consuming web-browser available for windows Vista is?
    den_do19.jpg


  • #3
    eskimo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 682 ✭✭✭eskimo


    Yeah I suppose it is like asking who the best Republican US presidential candidate is. But Vista is a RAM monster and I need to control it!!


  • #4
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    are you on 1gb of ram? I feel for you.

    Theres Opera, or Firefox pretty much. all that i know of. FF3 is a big improvement over 2 in memory consumption.


  • #5
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    lynx ftw.

    http://www.vordweb.co.uk/standards/download_lynx.htm
    :pac:


  • #6
    daftdave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭daftdave


    eskimo wrote: »
    Anybody know what the lightest, least-memory-consuming web-browser available for windows Vista is?

    i previously used a browser called maxthon 2,

    you should look into upgrading your ram, its v easy to do and quite cheap also these days


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  • #7
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Maxthon is pretty good actually. I used that for a wee while.
    How does safari or whatever its called rate?
    That looks pretty but I never used it.
    Like that hot girl in secondary school.
    Wait.
    I went to an all boys secondary school.
    .....
    uhoh.


  • #8
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    eskimo wrote: »
    Yeah I suppose it is like asking who the best Republican US presidential candidate is. But Vista is a RAM monster and I need to control it!!


    remember vista is putting that ram to good use

    no point have 2 gigs of ram in a pc and only using 300mb of it like xp used to

    vista will spend the first few mins loading every important file into that 2gig so when you click internet explorer it loads in an instant with no drive activity.


  • #9
    eskimo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 682 ✭✭✭eskimo


    Overheal wrote: »
    are you on 1gb of ram? I feel for you.

    No. I'm on 2gb.

    So it seems there is no option! Except for Vista to go back in time and decide to be less annoying!

    Thanks for all the advice anyway! :)


  • #10
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    K-Meleon is fairly light.


  • #11
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    eskimo wrote: »
    No. I'm on 2gb.

    So it seems there is no option! Except for Vista to go back in time and decide to be less annoying!

    Thanks for all the advice anyway! :)


    you can disable the [EDIT] superfetch [/EDIT] service in services.msc, this will free up the tons of ram that vista is annoyingly using

    but obviously this will make your pc much slower


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  • #12
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Sean_K wrote: »
    lynx ftw.

    http://www.vordweb.co.uk/standards/download_lynx.htm
    :pac:
    Haha.. I saw the title and was just gonna post that. :pac:


  • #13
    stevire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭stevire


    Opera, Firefox and Flock... Doesnt get lighter than that unless you want to lose all the menu systems, bookmarks etc...


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