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Re: Light web browser for old PC

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Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina.rakotomandimby@rktmb.org> writes:

> 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...).


Good advice.  It works.

Thanks.

Rodolfo

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Re: Light web browser for old PC Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 16:10 +0200

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