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That's a shame. I confess I had only tried it about 2-3 years ago, and it used to crash quite a bit then. I sort of hoped that over time and with the attention it's received from the Elementary project that it would be in a better state!
A lightweight web browser is a web browser that sacrifices some of the features of a mainstream web browser in order to reduce the consumption of system resources, and especially to minimize the memory footprint.[1][2][3]
The tables below compare notable lightweight web browsers. Several of them use a common layout engine, but each has a unique combination of features and a potential niche. The minimal user interface in surf, for example, does not have tabs,[4] whereas xombrero can be driven with vi-like keyboard commands.[5]
Xfce doesn't have a browser per se as a core application. In the past, there was some sort of relationship with the "midori" browser (which was frequently packaged with Xfce), but that browser seems to have moved off on its own. It supports adblocking and incognito.
I played around w Midori before but when I tried it was pretty bare-bones.
Would you know other projects which aren't tied to a specific desktop? (I'm guessing installing the G/M ones requires tons of dependencies).
There's a divide between too light and full-featured. Among the full-featured browsers, my lightest favorite is Pale Moon. It's a slimmed down Firefox. I like the GNOME browser (Epiphany?). Pale Moon is probably lighter, but I'm not exact there. There's another difference between light on system resources and light browsing. If the latter is your goal, that has mostly to do with the sites you visit and the tools you mention... loading images, video, etc.
Incognito in Firefox derivatives is "--private". It is possible in Linux to do adblocking outside the browser, yet if not available you'll just need to make sure whatever browser you use has compatible extensions. Outside-the-browser is preferable because you don't have to give up privacy.
Just giving some feedback about my brief experience with finding alternatives to Firefox -- I've been running Firefox-esr v68.x on Q4OS-TDE in my netbook but apparently it is too heavy for the Atom CPU muscle.
2. Then I tried curses based Links2 ( ) v2.18 also from the repos and it works well with the only downside of over-simplifying the complex layout of some modern websites which can be somewhat confusing.
3. Lastly, I installed Qt based Falkon ( ) v3.0.0 from the repos (note v3.1.0 is the latest from the homepage) fearing it would be a disappointment with its 150MB of disk cost upfront only to be pleasantly surprised by the overall snapiness it displays in my scant present hardware -- in fact, I made the present post with it.
a. Would it be possible to upgrade to the more recent version of Falkon? It's present in Sid repos and I downloaded the deb package from there but it has some unmet dependencies, mainly more recent versions of Qt libraries. With all the news of zero-days exploits it might not be the best option to be running a two-year old browser...
b. Another thing is, considering that my screen is only 600px high, it should be possible to start Falkon (as well as Firefox, for that matter) without a title bar, since it serves no purpose other to reduce the browser window real-estate. I'm able to choose "no border" or "full screen" from the left titlebar button menu but that doesn't stick. There's also "Configure Window Behavior" option but I can't make sense of its many choices.
A nice lightweight fast browser to consider on old systems, or systems with small screens is w3m. It runs in a terminal window. You can open it full screen in a separate workspace. It is available in the repsoitories.
To use it you simply type in the terminal w3m followed by the url. ABCD.com or ABCD.org etc is sufficient formatting for the url. The tab key moves from link to link and you scroll through a page with the cursor keys.
Although it is very bare bones it works very well with most informational sites and is a god send on news sites where advertising overwhelms the content. It formats material to fit the terminal window at any size you might set it at, which make neither the screen height or width an issue.
The navigation URL bar will show up for a few seconds, then disappear once the page is loaded. If you temporarily want the menus, move the mouse pointer to the top edge of the screen. The menus will disappear when you move the mouse pointer away from the edge.
Personaly I prefer Firefox, because it is actively developed, has nice privacy functions, such as tracking protection, DNS Over HTTPS, pop up window blocking, and it has uBlockOrigin, which can block 99% of ads, and also filters malicious and phishing websites.
But, if you are looking for a lightweight web browser, try Falkon. You can easily install it using Q4OS Software Centre. (attachment)
You could also try Palemoon:
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Please create a new topic in the Support section with a help request regarding to your Falkon crashes. This topic should rather serve as a more general discussion about lightweight browsers on netbook as suggested by the OP.
I most definitely have to reiterate this. Falkon is perfect for TDE. It's basically flawless on Q4OS. And if it were the default browser that comes preinstalled instead of Google Chrome then that would be great
sorry if i'm late and yes i found that edge is great on zorin idk why but is more smoother than any other browsers and it eats only 4% of ram and now it takes only 5% of cpu so yes that's great, i compared chromium and edge and saw that chromium eats quite the same of chrome
I'd like to find a lightweight, fast browser for Windows 7. I would like it to create ONE task, not a gajillion tasks when there are multiple tabs open (see note at bottom of question). Adblocking is important to me because I have trouble reading with distracting images on the page, especially when they appear with a time lag and the text starts shifting around.
(Note: why do I have so many tabs open? Because if I execute a web search about an issue, I find it efficient to do control-enter for each likely-looking hit, and then start skimming the results but moving from tab to tab.)
I have e very specific test setup in mind.I would like to start a web-browser that understands Javascript and can use HTTP proxy, point it to a URL (ideally by specifying it in the command line along with the proxy config), wait for the page to load while listening (in the proxy) requests are generated as web-page is rendered and Javascript is executed, then kill the whole thing and restart.
Ideally it should be something self-contained that doesn't require installation (just an EXE file that runs from command line). Lynx would have been ideal but for the fact that it doesn't support JS. It should have as small memory footprint as possible.
You want to eat your cake and have it too. Sorry - if you want JavaScript, you're going to have to deal with the overhead of launching a full-on browser. Besides, do you really want some third-rate browser testing your stuff, when each one has subtle (or in the case of IE, not-so-subtle) differences?
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I love Pentadactyl (previously Vimperator) for Firefox, but with all these plugins and things, Firefox is really slow. I've tried Vimium, but it's a little awkward and doesn't do all I'd like it to. I've also been playing around with Luakit, because it's in the Ubuntu repositories, and it's fast, lightweight, and has many of the same keybindings. However, I find Luakit doesn't do some of the things Pentadacytl can do.
I'm not a programmer, so I'm a little daunted by having to learn, say, Lua just so I can use a keyboard-centric web browser. Can someone recommend a feature-rich web browser that is still somewhat lightweight (i.e. won't take 10 seconds to start up on my laptop) and yet is not that difficult to configure?
Conkeror is probably the most keyboard-oriented graphical browser I have seen. Apparently it even supports some Firefox extensions. I've never used it myself as it takes a while to learn the keybindings, but maybe you will like it.
Have you tried Opera yet? When you install it go into the settings and enable UNIX Keyboard shortcuts. Things like ^U work, you can tab through links on the page and select them. They even have a page dedicated to how to use the browser without a mouse:
Funny enough, the plugin "webhelper" in Geany has a web browser and it looks similar to chrome. Its fast, uses webkit so webpages are displayed correctly and supports JavaScript. I've been using it (kind of) to regulary browse, but I am hoping I can find a browser like it so I don't need Geany.
If you want to use it as workstation, think about getting a newer pi. RAM may be the limiting factor and the RAM usage mostly comes from big websites (modern html5 just consumes quite a lot of RAM and every browser with recent webkit/blink/gecko thus will need much RAM).
And of course lots of text only or text and graphics browsers like Dillo, Links 2, etc. Though I seem to recall they definitely have no Javascript or ability to use gmail, but work for sites with simpler logins.
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