Need me a small efficient browser

seamus · 03-05-2003 11:24am #1

In work here we use PII's with 64MB ram and they crawl along. IE is extremely slow when you have more than one window open, mainly because there are a few apps running at once (that we use for work). So any good, fast (as in CPU fast not connection fast) browsers around. Tis annoying me having everything slow down when I click a link on boards, or open another window to check my bank a/c.

Opera, Mozilla and Netscape are even worse than IE on these machines.

SouperComputer · 03-05-2003 2:00pm

64mb of ram is shag all TBH.

Opera I found was the best and least resource intensive on a 233mmx. Also note that Boards.ie is pretty CPU heavy!

What OS are you running?

seamus · 03-05-2003 2:28pm

They're running NT.

I found a browser on download.com called Slimbrowser which seems to do the job. Very like galeon, and renders pages perfectly

ando · 03-05-2003 5:16pm

I work with pc's like the description above quite a lot, I find IE5.5 to be best all round

Captain Trips · 03-05-2003 10:18pm

What about Netscape 3? You can surely find it around the web in places. Very good brwser but obviously you sacrifice all the extras that IE gives you.

DiscoStu · 03-05-2003 10:37pm

lynx, nothing beats command line browsing

red vex · 04-05-2003 9:53am

i heard sum1 mention phoenix before

Spunog UIE · 04-05-2003 10:51pm

very similar to mozilla, they all started the same.

ya don't get the benifits till ur using a faster comp etc'

isn't there a way you can uninstall IE, that would free up ram? have never done it only heard that it can be done but meant to be a pain and can feck things about.

Might give it a go now that i'm thinking about it, seems a waste, never use the feckin thing, only when making the odd webpage

SouperComputer · 05-05-2003 2:42am

you can usually do it from add\remove programs under the add\remove windows components tab. Dont think it frees any resources though!

Spunog UIE · 05-05-2003 12:50pm

its not there,

anyway i meant to get rid if from memory not the actual harddrive, i do use it occasionally, and i'm fairly sure it does take up memory whether its shared with explorer I don't know.

Captain Trips · 05-05-2003 2:38pm

Microsoft made it so that it became an integral part of windows because it's indeed linked to Explorer. Basically it *is* explorer now.

The way to get rid of it is to replace the explorer you have with teh lightning fats one that comes with Windows 95 (which has zero bells & whistles). This is what 98lite does at a basic level.

As for XP, I don't know. TBH if you are looking to optimise your GUI, dump a) the OS for something like Linux which will give you far more configurability (but prob is too big a change!) or b) dump the Win32 GUI for something like Litestep (if that is even still around - haven't used it in years myself).

Talliesin · 06-05-2003 3:20pm

Well I've Lynx open right now, posting this reply. It's sitting on about 5MB memory usage.
I also have IE open, at the same page, and despite it having the benefit of sharing DLLs with the shell it's using up about 29MB.
Lynx would appear to be the winner there, and it's a nice browser too.

Need me a small efficient browser

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