alternative web browsers
 

Hi i use all the time the firefox web browses... but i think that consumes so much memory.... Do u know anything else alternative? Have u ever used opera?
Thx a lot

The best alternative I found so far is the Dillo browser with a patch to have tabs:
http://www.hyperborea.org/software/d...fied.html#tabs

Yves.

NOPE
 

Never tried Opera, but I am a little concerned with your comment on Firefox using too much memory. I find it to be very fast and efficient. I found that with my old dial-up (with an accelerator installed), Firefox was much faster.

Firefox is excellent; possibly the best.
However, it does take a lot of CPU, and with small configs (32MB ram) it also takes a significant share of the RAM.

Yves.

Firefox tends to use more ram the longer it is open. On my system it normally uses somewhere in the range of 50mb-100mb, it also causes XFree86 ram usage to increase. No problem for me as I have 1.5Gb of ram. But it is a known bug with Firefox.

Opera tends to use a little less ram usually somewhere around 30mb. Personally I do not like the ad bar. But I found by running Privoxy it gets rid of all the ads except for the Buy Opera ad. It is a little hard to get used to using after using Firefox for so long. Plus I miss my favorite extension CopyURLPlus.

You might also want to try Galeon which is based on Mozilla, or even Mozilla.

Dillo is fast but doesn't work on all web pages.

links2 is fast , the only drawback is it doesn't support secure connections.

I use Mozilla myself, but like others have written, there are great alternatives.

Dillo, I find to be lacking, but that's due to its compact size and relative lack of CSS support.

Epiphany and Galeon are serviceable but I see no advantage to them over and above Mozilla or Firefox. Same situation with Netscape, unless you keep an older copy of it around for web testing, like I do.

Opera does its best work on Windows where it's optimized. It was fast once upon a time but since vers. 8 it opens no faster than Firefox or runs any faster despite the claims of its fans.

Amaya - don't go there. :)

Lynx, elinks, w3m etc. Great for checking readability and useability for web development but not for much else.

Chimera - it's old and hoary but it's amusing seeing how it handles more modern websites.

Konqueror, opera, epiphany, galeon, lynx, links, elinks, dillo are some alternative browsers that I have used.

..lynx (text-browser)

Yeah, I forgot all about Konqueror. It's probably the pick of the Gecko alternatives, especially 3.3 or above.

thjx a lot
 

I have also noticed that after some period firefox consumes more and more ram and makex X to use more cpu.. I dont know if there is a fix for this problem....

Re: thjx a lot
 

Its a known bug, the deerpark builds of Firefox seem to perform a lot better in terms of memory consumption when compared to the current official releases.

what are deerpark builds?

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
The Firefox 1.1 series

Yeah the comments about firefox consuming more the longer it is open are definitly true ...... Iam saying this because I experienced probs with this issue several times especially with multiple tabs.....

Opera
 

Opera's browser is less well known than the top dogs -- "IE and Firefox", but it is an excellent piece of software. It's main marketing forte may be windows, but the Linux and FreeBSD versions run just as well. I think that (even on FreeBSD) the Opera browser looks more "Windows-like" than the other browsers, possibly because of the qt widget implementation.

Opera has a smaller footprint than Mozilla. I have some *very* low powered systems that run FreeBSD, and while Mozilla is unbearably slow on those systems, the performance of Opera is acceptable.

Amaya - people like to laugh about this browser, but I have actually found a home for it. I have a system (even less powerful than the ones previously described), that cannot effectively run Mozilla or Opera. My choice was Lynx (yuck), or Amaya.

Amaya's NetBSD footprint is a little smaller than Opera's, so it runs on my "bottom rung" computer with acceptable performance. It's footprint is smaller because Amaya does not have any javascript capability, which really whacks some web pages. (But even with no javascript, it's easier on my eyes than Lynx :-) ... If I'm just Googling (that a word?) the lack of javascript does not get in the way as much.

Dillo - never tried it, but it was recommended to me for use with my powerless computers. I take from that recommendation that it's probably a skeletal browser. Anyone know whether or not it does javascript?