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The good, despite using Webkit, uses less ram with my 3 tabs, around 220MB. The bad, it gets stuck using a lot of CPU and my 3 sites load in a lot of time. This crappy Atom can't run it smoothly like the other browsers. But strangely the UI is smooth o_O
So, Safari isn't for me, I guess. The winner at this moment is Opera. What do you think about trying an old version of Opera?
I was going to say it :X Safari is somehow heavy on CPU.
Opera is relatively light weight for all resources. But I don't recommend a too old version, since it will get countless mess in displaying elements in webpages, also Youtube and most websites won't display correctly.
I don't know how much resource will differ since the outdated version I have. But I seem to be going very soon to get the latest release and see how things goes, I will probably go back to depending on it as my main browser as I did for years, untill near 2009. btw, it seems I recommended you with dozens of browsers :P
Isn't funny...
Instead of that what about opera but without mail/irc/rss:
and disabling Automatic RAM Cache in about:config.
The Automatic RAM Cache can be disabled from settings :P
Also, tried the nomail flag, and didn't gained any extra memory u_u
The Browser I've currently fallen in love with: http://www.uzbl.org/ Or you could also try Midori. Also very nice, I'm using that one on my Netbook.
I tried midori long time ago, I don't remember how it feels.
And that uzbl seems that is for Linux users. At this moment using the netbook with XP
No worry, real nix people loves to use really weird and kinda unique stuff, aren't they? :-)
Best thing about XP, it has the largest marketplace of virus's
I may compile Uzbl on OS X later.
I wonder if I can find a copy of the original 3MB Firefox browser. Chrome and Firefox easily use 1GB of my 2GB's of desktop RAM.
...and drivers, games, and general software.
I just find version 2 off of their site even though it's a version 1 link that I'm following:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
edit: And I guess it;s just an update. I can't get into the menus as the site is timing out and the "You have an older version of Firefox" banner is locked over 60% of my screen and I can't get rid of it.
Have a look at some of the older versions (looking at it is all I offer with no fee
) inside of my pc:
http://i51.tinypic.com/2yxht8g.gif
It may be funny that most versions seen here, were not used for long, or not tried at all. What took me away from IE forever, was Opera.
Down to Ver. 0.8: http://www.oldapps.com/firefox.php
Nice find
It's for Yomero is like, from v3 and up it doesn't support quote in here, and at the same time following versions are heavier on Netbook. Versions older than v3 may as well not support the quote, and even more stuff.
And I am not using antivirus, what's the problem?
@yomero
You know, what is so weird, as I look at Wikipedia, and other sources, Firefox 7 reduces memory usage by (up to) 50%.
I have one of the old netbooks (when they just came out) with an Intel Atom 1.60Ghz + 1GB RAM + 8GB SSD. (Acer) Google Chrome on Debian 6 works really good on it (Chromium) - Have you tried the open source chromium? Jw.
3 Tabs - 285MB (Static Tabs) CPU clocked at about 60%, spikes to 90 at times (when loading usually) + still have about 400MB free on RAM.
Debian Minimum is also a great Memory saver :P
@Blackstorm72
I have an Acer one too, but with 1.5GB. Thanks man, I will take a look at that Firefox.
As you said, 3 tabs = 285MB is A LOT OF WASTED RAM. The problem here is, that I am not browsing only, sometimes I am doing developing tasks, listening music and opening Puttys like hell xD.
About the OS, yes, I have a Debian here too (and an OSX inclusive), but for me is more comfortable to work in a Windows environment.
Firefox.exe: 381MB of RAM (15 Tabs Open)
hl2.exe (Source Game): 151MB of RAM
y u use so much memory memoryfox?