Auxiliary browser?

[Soen Eber]

I don't have any problems with Google Chrome (I know I should, but it's not urgent right now). What is a current focus is I am such a tab whore so that that when I enter Second Life I'm carrying around a 400 pound stone that's slowing my ability to use SL - it's hard sometimes just to click a build control! So I'm looking for a lightweight browser where I can have a few tabs open for LSL portal, code samples, and things directly related towards my current building project.

Any recommendations? Both Opera and Brave look very good, but the deciding point will be keeping everything lightweight. I can keep my fun and bulkier things on Google.

 

[Free]

I do a lot of shifting between Chrome and Firefox. Firefox tends to handle tab overload like an exercise addict.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Edge for one identity.
Chrome or another.
Firefox for another still.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Safari.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Any recommendations? Both Opera and Brave look very good, but the deciding point will be keeping everything lightweight. I can keep my fun and bulkier things on Google.

Brave uses chromium as its engine so I don't know if it is any more light weight.

 

[Noodles]

Brave uses chromium as its engine so I don't know if it is any more light weight.

I think Firefox is the only thing that does not use Chromium these days.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I use a little Chrome extension called Tab Suspender. Pretty clever -- cuts down at least some of the bloat.

 

[Spirits Rising]

Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and Firefox.

Brave is my normal browser, Vivaldi and Opera being the general use backups and FireFox being the media backup.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

There are no suitable lightweight browsers for the modern web anymore. Anything which is able to render HTML5, so Chrome with all relatives like Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, Safari and so on and Firefox, is not lightweight, because Webkit/Blink and Gecko is heavy.

Anything which is lightweight, like the Dillo browser, Netsurf or Lynx, is unable to render HTML5 properly, so will not work with most modern web pages.

So TL;DR: get more RAM!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

NetPositive in a BeOS virtual machine!

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Lynx, links, elinks, Dillo, Midori.

 

[Free]

Lynx, links, elinks, Dillo, Midori.

First time through I read one of those as "Dildo," and for a moment...

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Lynx, links, elinks, Dillo, Midori.

Midori uses Chromium as base, so definitely not lightweight. Before that it used WebkitGTK, if I remember correctly, which was also quite heavy on its own.