mitch00 Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 For a light weight browser I highly suggest K-Meleon :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STNG Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 Opera - is the most functional, fast and light browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarik Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 K-Ninja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanboynz Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 feel the wraith of the opera fanboys.. :o K-Meleon just reached v1.0, looks very nice and indeed its light weight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valerus Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 This is ridiculous. 4 Tabs open on Firefox - 150,000 K 4 Tabs open on K-Meleon - 36,000 K :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOC Veteran Posted July 18, 2006 Veteran Share Posted July 18, 2006 Normally I'd suggest Flock as that's my main browser now. But since it isn't light, I'd have to agree that K-Meleon is the way to go (Y) I'm posting this in it right now in fact. I can't wait for the CCF version to come out! K-Meleon is light, fast, looks pretty decent, and best of all, works with Ad-Muncher! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOC Veteran Posted July 18, 2006 Veteran Share Posted July 18, 2006 I must add this: I currently have 11 tabs open in K-Meleon...and it's using 6,838kb of memory. That's it. Minimized it's using 1,221kb. Yeah, beat that any other browser! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol911 Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Another vote for Opera :D I suggest you try Enigma: http://www.suttondesigns.com/ Haven't tested it myself, so I dunno how good it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flavv Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I'd recommend Deepnet with news reader and p2p disabled. That or the latest build of SeaMonkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I did a small test for my self but i went on farnborough.com (airshow site) IE = 60MB used Firefox = 150-170mb used :blush: and it nearly crashed my pc. :shiftyninja: Okie did a picture of task manger. I had neowin open and the farnborough site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanboynz Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I did a small test for my self but i went on farnborough.com (airshow site) IE = 60MB used Firefox = 150-170mb used :blush: and it nearly crashed my pc. :shiftyninja: memory management in firefox 2.0 will be a lot better than 1.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted July 20, 2006 Veteran Share Posted July 20, 2006 I did a small test for my self but i went on farnborough.com (airshow site) IE = 60MB used Firefox = 150-170mb used :blush: and it nearly crashed my pc. :shiftyninja: Okie did a picture of task manger. I had neowin open and the farnborough site. I did the same test as you (opened Neowin in one tab, opened that Farnborough site in another) in Firefox 1.5 and I got this: I guess I must be one of the lucky ones, as I never had any major memory problems with Firefox - despite that it's not my everyday browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Orange, that could be caused by an extension. Since you two are reporting such a big difference in memory used, that's probably what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dduardo Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Links is probably the lightest text/graphical web browser available: http://links.twibright.com/ It was designed for Unix/Linux, but you can run it under windows with cygwin. Here is a screenshot: http://links.twibright.com/shots/shot0.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Gosselin Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I vote for Opera and also, K-Meleon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted July 20, 2006 Veteran Share Posted July 20, 2006 I have Firefox 1.5.0.4 on my mom's P3 notebook (I'm using it now). It runs on top of Windows XP and this box only has 128MB RAM. It seems fine. There are virtually no extensions installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beanboy89 Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 For a lightweight browser, I'd go with either K-Meleon, or K-Ninja (which is based on K-Meleon). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Orange, that could be caused by an extension. Since you two are reporting such a big difference in memory used, that's probably what it is. Just thought of that now. I have 6 extensions installed :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoopy2005uk Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 just opened 2 tabs in Firefox and Opera then minimized them and you can see the results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted July 20, 2006 Veteran Share Posted July 20, 2006 Just thought of that now. I have 6 extensions installed :blush: :huh: I did another test. Firefox has just page open - my home page (www.netvibes.com), and right now it's taking up 26 MB of memory with nine extensions: This must clearly be a hardware related issue or some hidden setting is turned on in my profile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrganicPanda Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 i'm using swiftfox on linux which has a very nice startup time compared to regular firefox although i think its only availible on linux, 10 extensions 10 tabs open with 2% cpu and 95mb ram usage, works for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pallab Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Another vote for Opera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bawx Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 This is ridiculous. 4 Tabs open on Firefox - 150,000 K 4 Tabs open on K-Meleon - 36,000 K :| With 5 Neowin tabs open in Maxthon I'm at 31k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProjectRAGE Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 Opera is just as heavy as firefox. You smoke crack right? :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted July 21, 2006 Veteran Share Posted July 21, 2006 You smoke crack right? :rofl: My experience is that Opera uses the same memory as Firefox (or close enough not to matter). This is because I compare Opera with no extensions to Firefox with few (or no) extensions. People that install Fasterfox and all of that other junk just bog down their installations of Firefox. Even when you uninstall Fasterfox, I don't think your system goes back to normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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