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It all depends on what you mean by "fast" -- the reason the browsers are resource-intensive is because the web-sites are scripted to hell & back.
According to this scripting benchmark, Chromium is the fastest browser (~31,000 on my laptop) with Firefox a close second (~29,000); the light-weight browsers (Midori, Epiphany, dwb, etc) all come out much slower (~16,000) and are quite buggy in comparison to the big players.
I swear by elinks for text-only sites and Lynx is actively developed and has good support for SSL and HTML features.
Fast can mean fast if given all the resources it needs, or fast on a small system. On this computer, Firefox runs like a wounded snail. I use Opera, and Midori is probably even less demanding.
According to this scripting benchmark, Chromium is the fastest browser (~31,000 on my laptop) with Firefox a close second (~29,000); the light-weight browsers (Midori, Epiphany, dwb, etc) all come out much slower (~16,000) and are quite buggy in comparison to the big players.
This. After being a die-hard Firefox user forever, I have now switched to Chromium, and I use links for lightweight text browsing. I find all the "lightweight" alternatives, such as midori, surf, xombrero, and netsurf to be crashy, and dillo doesn't support javascript (for better or worse).
This. After being a die-hard Firefox user forever, I have now switched to Chromium, and I use links for lightweight text browsing. I find all the "lightweight" alternatives, such as midori, surf, xombrero, and netsurf to be crashy, and dillo doesn't support javascript (for better or worse).
I had impression that iceweasel is faster than chromium.
anyhow both are quite slow time to time, or rather more or less ok.
but still consume too much ram.
Surf is faster than chromium and iceweasel.
the fastest ever and quite nice is LINKS2 : links2 -g www.google.com
but it has limited features, no flash tubes,...
It all depends on what you mean by "fast" -- the reason the browsers are resource-intensive is because the web-sites are scripted to hell & back.
According to this scripting benchmark, Chromium is the fastest browser (~31,000 on my laptop) with Firefox a close second (~29,000); the light-weight browsers (Midori, Epiphany, dwb, etc) all come out much slower (~16,000) and are quite buggy in comparison to the big players.
I swear by elinks for text-only sites and Lynx is actively developed and has good support for SSL and HTML features.
Or just use NoScript and be faster than any of those.
That's openbox with my own theme plus tint2 for the panel.
EDIT: Well, I say "my own" theme but it's really just the "Numix" theme with the colours and borders changed so it matches with the Adwaita GTK theme and the panel...
Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick; 02-01-2015 at 03:10 PM.
I'll agree with post #10. Since I added NoScript, firefox is fast enough to suit my requirements AND I like the cookie manager. The latter is something I struggled with in midori.
You can disable scripting using about:config (javascript.enabled) rather than a plug in (although it is a pain re-enabling it for the sites that need it to function).
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