any good lightweight web browser / office for Windows?
 

something equivalent to android's Naked browser? for old laptops. :okay:

chrome?

Lynx? Lol
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

Old netscape navigator?

http://download.cnet.com/Netscape-Navigator/3028-2356_4-10145004.html?dlc=n&c=semcan&s=sokrati&part=sokrati&pid=dlcom_sem&aid=4599M2FXYA94UE

tried Chrome, it's actually worse when loading youtube videos

searched around this morning and found these. I am trying the 3 with highest rating, awesome
Lightweight Browsers

Chrome is actually very bloated now, I recently switched back to Firefox

Chrome is still faster and less bloated than Firefox. Chrome also takes up less screen real estate.

FF is faster for me.. I switched after noticing it when using it as an alt browser

FF also takes up as much or little screen as you set it up for. You can disable most toolbars so you essentially get full height. Can't do that on Chrome (at least not without mods)

Iron chrome
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if browsing is the only thing ur r doing with light office stuff.. install ubuntu,,, ull be glad u did.

I have been using Ubuntu as secondary OS since their 9.x version.
it doesn't really benefit much if the hardware is already too old to support heavy work, I tried SSD and not really worth it. Playing youtube and videos are still stuttering.

People have the misconception that Chrome is a light browser. The answer is yes.. and no. It depends what you're running. 1 tab with a news site on = minimal memory usage, but more tabs and flash is when it gets really heavy. It's because chrome puts each tab as a separate process as if to recover them better if they crash.

As for lightweight browser, you can try Pale Moon. Not sure how dev has been, but when I used it on my older desktop it was really good. It's a streamlined version of Firefox basically.

Waterfox - The fastest 64-bit variant of Firefox on the web
I use Waterfox. It's based on Firefox, but much more lightweight and stripped of bloat. Give it a shot.

Chrome is faster, in the sense that, pages load faster than Firefox, as it was designed to utilize more RAM for instant memory access and storage, so for older systems, it's better to use Firefox (as Firefox caches more of it's data to the HD). It sounds like OP is using a very old laptop, in which case, he will benefit more from NOT running Windows and use Linux instead (such as KDE or XFCE).

If he wants to stick with Windows, then it's better that he use a light weight browser. I'm running Midori with Linux Mint 14 XFCE on a netbook, and it's flawless thus far.

chrome such a memory hog now~

Anyone experienced Chrome slowing down lately for sites that use a secured connection? I have to use the following command line to temporary "fix" it: --use-spdy=off --use-system-ssl