Which Linux browser to choose?

Question

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Hello.
In connection with the recent transition to Linux, in particular Debian Testing, the question arose of choosing a browser for it. The problem is this. Since an old netbook is used on which there is only 2Gb of RAM and due to the change in the course and reading the 'somersaults' of our economy, it is not yet expected to change it to something newer. After using several browsers, I noticed a strange thing, if in Windows that Mozilla and the new Opera did not slow down with 7 or more open tabs, then in Debian, when you open more than 3 tabs in the new Opere or another browser on Chromium, the brakes begin due to the fact that the system starts using swap. Hence the question is whether there is any browser that does not eat so much memory? Or is it not in the browser but in the flash for example? It's just indecent when, with 3 tabs, the browser eats 500 MB of RAM with AdbBlock enabled

Answer 1

links you can look at this NetSurf 3.3 www.netsurf-browser.org

Answer 2

lynx.

Answer 3

adblock eats memory well, use ublock instead, there is
also ghostery to disable unnecessary page components

Answer 4

I'm afraid everything is sad with browsers. except for the donkey, there is no particular smell of optimization in anyone. govnokod + Linux = complete sadness under equal conditions with Windows.

Answer 5

In my experience, Firefox doesn't consume memory as aggressively as Chromium-based browsers. Another nice feature is that if you close the browser and then open it, the tabs will not load until the first transition to them. Actual if you like to leave tabs "for later".

Answer 6

I have firefox on 2GB normally lives. I block Flash mostly, for youtube I use viewtube.
Now about 10 tabs, 850MB in memory.

Answer 7

I use firefox .. No complaints

Answer 8

Install some add-on \ plugin on chrome or fox that speeds up the Internet. The pictures will be compressed and the quality is shit, but load faster. And do not open a lot of tabs, because this eats RAM.

Answer 9

Optimize the use of swap to start with /proc/sys/vm/swappinessso that RAM is used to the maximum and the system does not use swap ahead of time.
first thing google came up with

Answer 10

Try NetSurf .
NetSurf is a minimalistic multi-platform web browser capable of running on systems with several tens of megabytes of RAM. There is support for Linux, Windows, OS X, AmigaOS, RISC OS and various Unix-like systems. The browser code is written in C language and distributed under the GPLv2 license.