Re: Light web browser for old PC
On 07/01/2015 09:21 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi ... As web browser, Midori was
claimed to be light, but I see almost no difference with Firefox. Please any
advice for a *really* light one, suitable for that old machine?
Most browsers rely on the redering engine.
On that field you mostly have no choice but Webkit and Gecko.
Unfortunately, they are the engine under Chrom* and Firefox, even Opera.
Espacially for Midori, it's Webkit.
These are IMPOV really heavy pieces of softwares.
OTOH, as you mentionned, nowadays webpages are full of those Javascript
pieces of code that really need to be parsed and interpreted.
There is one point of salvation, anyway: the mobile layout, that is
mostly kept simple and light.
Try, with your browser, to switch the "User-Agent" so that the website
detects it as a mobile then sends you the relevant layout.
On some browser (Firefox) you'll have to install an extension (you
looked for lightness, but...).
HTH.
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