Ask HN: the lightest simplest browser?

Posted by mohsen on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @11:59PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I feel it's these types of questions that get us closer to an eternal September here, but forgive me I must ask.

I have a pretty simple question, what is the lightest, fastest browser i could use.

my request is that

1) it allows for tabs

2) it has a decent set of keyboard shortcuts

Thanks in advance

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Re:Ask HN: the lightest simplest browser? by fractallyte on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @02:45AM (#1913336)

Also have a look at links2 (http://links.twibright.com/)

Runs in text or graphical mode - the latter is excellent if you want to avoid javascript (unfortunately, CSS too), but still see the page with gfx.

Great keyboard navigation, a decent download manager, and blazingly fast.

You can open new browsing windows, and while there's no tabbed browsing, some users delegate this to their (Linux) window manager, such as Fluxbox, which features tabbed windows.

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Re:Ask HN: the lightest simplest browser? by motvbi on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @12:08AM (#1912995)

Assuming you have ruled out Chrome and Opera, what exactly do you mean by "lightest"?

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Re:Ask HN: the lightest simplest browser? by mohsen on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @12:43AM (#1913062)

well to be honest i didn't give opera a chance.

by light, i really meant fast, guess a bad choice of words on my part, i really just want something really fast, not even chrome seems fast enough to me.

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Re:Ask HN: the lightest simplest browser? by GHFigs on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @01:10AM (#1913127)

Give Opera a chance. It's feels light/fast enough that I use it happily every day on a laptop almost a decade old and the keyboard shortcuts are fully configurable.

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Re:Ask HN: the lightest simplest browser? by waleed on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @12:17AM (#1913015)

Text based browsers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks

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Re:Ask HN: the lightest simplest browser? by mohsen on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @01:07AM (#1913120)

not sure if w3m is what i wanted, but i'm really really enjoying it right now. thank you.

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