Where is my lean browser for browsing gone to?

Posted by Lorenz-Kraft on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:45PM
from the self-post dept.

Hi all,

i'm surfing a lot in the net. I do some web development. Sometimes there are 10 to 20 Tabs opened ... and my CPU Fan is roaring at me. Time to buy a new computer? Well ... no! I don't get it why a browser with 20 opened tabs eats up 4 Gig of RAM and spikes my CPU to 100%?

So i'm looking for a cool browser that does just this: browsing. No fancy development stuff included. A FireFox Light. Have you seen it? Pleas leave a comment!

IF something like this is none existent, who is willing to help me building a fork of some browser to make surfing the web fun again?

Greets, Chris

p.s. i'm currently using Chrome, Safari and Firefox. Some Plugins like Popup Blocker installed. all eat up TOO much ram while doing, in my view, nothing.

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Re:Where is my lean browser for browsing gone to? by keithpeter on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:41PM (#7122012)

OK: Epiphany Web browser (webkit based) under Gnome 2.30 on gNewSense is coping with 12 tabs or so and using 170Mb. Tabs include The Verge and other heavy sites. I have javascript enabled. Scrolling is a bit slow on this old laptop. On a 1024 wide screen you get 9 tabs then arrows (i.e. Epiphany does not wrap the tabs bar).

http://thesimplecomputer.info/1-month-with-the-midori-web-br...

Midori has had a facelift (Gnome 3 version). Might be worth a try. Can't install this myself on this laptop without changing the OS.

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Re:Where is my lean browser for browsing gone to? by randallma on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:43PM (#7122023)

Try Midori? Runs on Webkit, has all of the base features of the other major browsers (web inspector, bookmarks, etc) without the cloud/syncing features or addons.

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Re:Where is my lean browser for browsing gone to? by juliangoldsmith on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @03:00PM (#7139318)

I'm rather partial to surf myself, which you can find at: http://surf.suckless.org/ . It's best suited for *nixes under a tiling WM, so YMMV.

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Re:Where is my lean browser for browsing gone to? by zomg on Saturday January 25, 2014 @07:15PM (#7123149)

if you want a true lean browser then dillo is the only way to go: http://www.dillo.org

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