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Best Browser for Win7 in a Low End Machine?

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DanStp

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A friend of mine has an old IBM Thinkpad, a T40. It has 1 gig of ram and is running Win7 32 bit of course. Which web browser would run best on this low end machine with little memory?

BTW it has a 1.5 Ghz single core Centrio processor.

Thanks in advance🙂
 
Another +1 for Opera. For me its memory usage never passes 10% of my memory on any machine I run it on and it's as fast as chrome in rendering speed.
 
I don't think it matters that much. Put them all on, and he can pick which one he likes best. For speed+features Opera's pretty nice, but I still prefer Firefox, even on very low end machines.
 
Firefox with NoScript should work pretty well. It's not as fast as Opera but I have FF running on a netbook and a P4-era Dell, runs fine on both.
 
I'd try them all out to see how the perform in real life usage. If it were me, i'd pick firefox or perhaps opera.
 
ie8 or ie9 man. FF and chrome seem to eat up a ton of ram randomly. not sure why. maybe the awesome-o new process sandbox?
 
I've got no problems with Chrome on my lower end stuff. It eats a bit more ram than Opera, but for me it's still quicker than most browsers.
 
Chrome or Opera. I prefer Chrome just because the interface is much better than Opera's, but to each his own. Install both and see what he/she likes.
 
Opera. You can change the interface to almost absolutely anything you want; it takes a bit of time and experimenting but it's worth it.
 
Songbird, you can listen to mp3s and browse the web in it. So instead of running two programs you have only one and you save resources!!!!|
 
Barfo said:
Songbird, you can listen to mp3s and browse the web in it. So instead of running two programs you have only one and you save resources!!!!|
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Opera can play mp3s, download torrents, view pictures, has built in mail client. LOL

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Thanks for all the input🙂

I think I will put on a few different browsers, and let them pick what they want to use.
 
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