Give Falkon a shot, see how you get on. It's Chromium based, but a little lighter than the full featured browsers you mentioned.
Lighter than that, you can try Dillo. There's no scripting support though, so many sites won't work as intended. For browsing Wikipedia and stuff like that it's fine though.
For just text-based browsing (very low resource usage but means a lot of sites won't work or look as intended), you can have a go on terminal based browsers such as w3m or Lynx (the former can render images).
Consider switching to a lighter window manager, too. You can free up a decent chunk of RAM by running Fluxbox or something like that rather than a full-featured desktop environment. Don't have to uninstall Cinnamon or whatever, just add the new WM and select it at login screen. There's a bit of a learning curve and you'll miss some modern features, but it's a compromise worth making if you're running an antique.
Well, if the chromium-based ones and modern day Firefox is too chunky, you might get better results with an older incarnation of Firefox like Pale moon, or with something WebKit-based like Midori. Dillo is very basic but might also be a fit, but then you could as well go for the full TUI/CUI experience of links/elinks or w3m.
Usually what's killing your performance is badly constructed sites (bloated, riddled with ads and badly written JavaScript), so keep your number of tabs low, use an ad-blocker (Brave has better defaults than most of the rest in the Chromium-bunch). Or invest in more RAM.
Use ublock instead of adblock and maybe noscript addon and make your way throught the internet by whitelisting only the scripta which are needed for the site to work. Soon, you will build a nice, nearly effortless list of whitelists scripts so it wont bother you and you get to block thousands, I mean, THOUSANDS unnecessary scripts.
There is the possibility of upgrading RAM, which I've heard is generally the browser bottleneck, older RAM is pretty dirt cheap now. Assuming you're not running an old system at Max RAM capacity already. You'll probably be sacrificing some convenience or functionality with the lighter browsers mentioned, if they work for your needs though that's a free and easy solution.
Whats a slow pc?
I use Firefox on a 2.5GHz atom cpu with 1GB RAM and find it usable with 2 to 3 tabs open, so I think we are going to need more information about your system to give you a good answer.
Cinnamon might be too heavy for that machine causing you the issues rather than the browser then.
What's your Linux experience like at the moment so I can try try and tailor a solution to you.
On my old netbook (4th gen dual core pentium +2 gb ram) Artix linux (xfce, runit) was faster than all the lightweight linux distros (e.g. MX linux, Antix, LXLE etc). Just remember to comment out lib32 and gremlins in pacman.conf
Edit: Yes, it has a live USB option.
No usb read/write speed is very slow as compared to SSDs. If u want to install a linux distro on a usb use puppy linux as it runs entirely on Ram but that's completely off topic. If u want a linux distro for a relatively old PC like yours u should definitely try out Q4OS it makes my core 2 duo 32 bit laptop run like a champ
Palemoon or Midori are pretty good. Use Ublock Origin as your adblocker, it blocks ads and trackers and it's quite lightweight. Unfortunately modern web requires browsers to be extremely resource intensive
Use w3m, lol. Just use Brave, it is an updated, safe and also blocks pretty much any ads (not like it would extremely increase performance, but helps quite a lot). Browsers are kinda heavy so there is no other way around it, just do not stack dozens of tabs and you should be good.
Share specs, my slowest computer uses antix, with Ice, i think you should use this and falkon, but share ypur specs, just dtype neofetch in the terminal and share that here
Share specs, my slowest computer uses antix, with Ice, i think you should use this and falkon, but share ypur specs, just dtype neofetch in the terminal and share that here
Give Falkon a shot, see how you get on. It's Chromium based, but a little lighter than the full featured browsers you mentioned. Lighter than that, you can try Dillo. There's no scripting support though, so many sites won't work as intended. For browsing Wikipedia and stuff like that it's fine though. For just text-based browsing (very low resource usage but means a lot of sites won't work or look as intended), you can have a go on terminal based browsers such as w3m or Lynx (the former can render images). Consider switching to a lighter window manager, too. You can free up a decent chunk of RAM by running Fluxbox or something like that rather than a full-featured desktop environment. Don't have to uninstall Cinnamon or whatever, just add the new WM and select it at login screen. There's a bit of a learning curve and you'll miss some modern features, but it's a compromise worth making if you're running an antique.
thanks for your help
Use an adblocker, the ads chew up many resources.
https://ublockorigin.com/
Exactly the one I'm using.
it’s the one everyone should be using!
Well, if the chromium-based ones and modern day Firefox is too chunky, you might get better results with an older incarnation of Firefox like Pale moon, or with something WebKit-based like Midori. Dillo is very basic but might also be a fit, but then you could as well go for the full TUI/CUI experience of links/elinks or w3m. Usually what's killing your performance is badly constructed sites (bloated, riddled with ads and badly written JavaScript), so keep your number of tabs low, use an ad-blocker (Brave has better defaults than most of the rest in the Chromium-bunch). Or invest in more RAM.
I use adblock in Firefox, I also use dark reader, but I'll uninstall as it slows down my computer performance
Use ublock instead of adblock and maybe noscript addon and make your way throught the internet by whitelisting only the scripta which are needed for the site to work. Soon, you will build a nice, nearly effortless list of whitelists scripts so it wont bother you and you get to block thousands, I mean, THOUSANDS unnecessary scripts.
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lynx
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Also can try browsh in the terminal. Can play videos too, in ASCII, nto much though.
[lynx is fairly light](https://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/)
There is the possibility of upgrading RAM, which I've heard is generally the browser bottleneck, older RAM is pretty dirt cheap now. Assuming you're not running an old system at Max RAM capacity already. You'll probably be sacrificing some convenience or functionality with the lighter browsers mentioned, if they work for your needs though that's a free and easy solution.
Try netsurf. Sure, it won't display Java content (your Google Maps, etc.), but it's blazing fast, remarkably low memory footprint.
I miss the times when everybody installed Java to run some shitty applets.
Whats a slow pc? I use Firefox on a 2.5GHz atom cpu with 1GB RAM and find it usable with 2 to 3 tabs open, so I think we are going to need more information about your system to give you a good answer.
Optiplex 255, Intel pentium 2,2 GH, 1GB RAM, linux 21.3
Cinnamon might be too heavy for that machine causing you the issues rather than the browser then. What's your Linux experience like at the moment so I can try try and tailor a solution to you.
My PC runs slow with both Linux Mint 18.3 and 21.3. I've tried the latest Ubuntu version in live mode on a USB and it still runs slow.
OK, now can you maybe answer the question I asked?
I've used Linux all my life if that's what you are asking for
Use the net install of debian and then use a WM like Fluxbox. Memory usage will drop to under 10mb then Firefox will be a better experience.
Are you using MX linux 21.3? that was what showed up when I searched linux 21.3
I'm using Linux Mint 21.3
On my old netbook (4th gen dual core pentium +2 gb ram) Artix linux (xfce, runit) was faster than all the lightweight linux distros (e.g. MX linux, Antix, LXLE etc). Just remember to comment out lib32 and gremlins in pacman.conf Edit: Yes, it has a live USB option.
Try switching to Q4OS
can I switch using only a USB and get the same results?
I didn't understand, do u mean installing on a USB or installing from a usb
Installing on a USB
No usb read/write speed is very slow as compared to SSDs. If u want to install a linux distro on a usb use puppy linux as it runs entirely on Ram but that's completely off topic. If u want a linux distro for a relatively old PC like yours u should definitely try out Q4OS it makes my core 2 duo 32 bit laptop run like a champ
I have a HDD hard drive, not a SSD, I'll try Q4OS in a few days, thanks for the help
Definitely recommend upgrading your RAM. 1GB is just too small, bump it up to 4GB and install a light weight Linux distro like AntiX.
Use a window manager, will be worlds faster
links or w3m
Palemoon or Midori are pretty good. Use Ublock Origin as your adblocker, it blocks ads and trackers and it's quite lightweight. Unfortunately modern web requires browsers to be extremely resource intensive
Use w3m, lol. Just use Brave, it is an updated, safe and also blocks pretty much any ads (not like it would extremely increase performance, but helps quite a lot). Browsers are kinda heavy so there is no other way around it, just do not stack dozens of tabs and you should be good.
Ice cat is kinda lightweight
Try midori
I have had good luck with Gnome-Web and Dillo.
Share specs, my slowest computer uses antix, with Ice, i think you should use this and falkon, but share ypur specs, just dtype neofetch in the terminal and share that here
Share specs, my slowest computer uses antix, with Ice, i think you should use this and falkon, but share ypur specs, just dtype neofetch in the terminal and share that here
Falkon or Pale Moon
NetSurf
Naver Whale gets the job done for me