best browser for old laptop help!

[ivtec]

Hi guys;I've got an old Sony Vaio VGN-A SERIES,with,
WIN XP PRO SERVICE PACK3
INTEL (R) PENTHIUM (R)M PROCESSOR 1.500 MHZ
1.50 GHZ 100GB OF RAM
ATI RADEON 9200 CARD.

I need it more to browse the internet and watch live TV streaming.
now which browser will give me the fastest browsing and better flash players for less legging and tools, with the software and hardware i have,thanks in advance.

[Uranium-235]

Re: best browser for old laptop help!

100 gigs of ram? oh my, firefox should do just nicely

oh 1gig? meh, chrome perhaps

[vinceroger69]

Re: best browser for old laptop help!

i have just reformatted 3 dell c510 laptops specs weren't great 20gb hard drive 384 ram 1066 mhz cpu i used firebox on all 3 laptops all run 0k on the internet downloaded a few programs quite fast imo for a old laptop of this era 2002 ish.

[mockingbird]

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Chromium runs the fastest on Windows XP SP3...

See my post here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...f=38&t=2628209

[ratdude747]

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Chrome runs decently on my Dell Latitude D400 (Pentium M 1.8ghz Donthan, 2gb DDR, WinXP sp3).

[ivtec]

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Hi guys I just Downloaded Google Chrome and my first impression is that is ok still on learning curve.One Thing i notice diferent is when i enter a forum or other place i open more pages and when i click on the X command it goes out the forum while on the IE it gives me the choice of closing that page while still staying in the forum,maybe i'm not doing the right think,
OH it's 1GB mem ram not 100

[ratdude747]

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1gb is fine if you don't open too many tabs. If you're a tab hog like me, you'll need 2gb.

[Heihachi_73]

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I have Firefox on my IBM 486 (Firefox 2, Windows 98 SE, 28MB RAM - not a typo, that is 28MB and not 128MB; 8+8+8+4MB 72-pin EDO sticks - I can actually install 128MB but it won't get past the POST!). If you keep the tabs to a minimum you can run it on practically anything, and even the oldest of Firefox builds will still be better than IE.

[lti]

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I use Firefox almost exclusively. The newer versions with hardware acceleration support run poorly on an old Toshiba Satellite 1000, but an HP laptop from the same time period with an AMD processor and VIA chipset runs it fine with hardware acceleration enabled. Both computers have 512MB of RAM and don't have any issues related to a lack of RAM. Flash runs poorly in Firefox, but a Pentium M should be fast enough to handle it.

I haven't used Chrome, but it is installed on my computer. The automatic updates suck. Whenever Chrome tries to update, the CPU usage jumps to 100% on one core and the fan starts running at full speed. It will make a computer with a single-core CPU completely unusable for a long period of time. When I tried using Chrome, I had some page loading issues that were severe enough to make me stop using it after only a few minutes, and the memory usage wasn't that much better than Firefox or IE.

[ivtec]

Re: best browser for old laptop help!

I use Firefox almost exclusively. The newer versions with hardware acceleration support run poorly on an old Toshiba Satellite 1000, but an HP laptop from the same time period with an AMD processor and VIA chipset runs it fine with hardware acceleration enabled. Both computers have 512MB of RAM and don't have any issues related to a lack of RAM. Flash runs poorly in Firefox, but a Pentium M should be fast enough to handle it.

I haven't used Chrome, but it is installed on my computer. The automatic updates suck. Whenever Chrome tries to update, the CPU usage jumps to 100% on one core and the fan starts running at full speed. It will make a computer with a single-core CPU completely unusable for a long period of time. When I tried using Chrome, I had some page loading issues that were severe enough to make me stop using it after only a few minutes, and the memory usage wasn't that much better than Firefox or IE.

One thing that i don't like on Chrome is that when i go to a forum and enter a thread and click on a link and then click X to get out of the link page and stay on the forum it simple exits the forum and i have to reenter the forum again is annoying, on IE it wont get out like that but gives me the choice if i want to leave this page,and still stay on the forum.
Also on IE spell check gives a few correction choices while chrome just underlines the word and i have to find the correct word till; the line exits.

[momaka]

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I like Firefox as well. Runs fine on my P3 computers, which all have less than 512 MB of RAM. If not running YouTube or other flash-heavy websites, I can have over 20 tabs open before RAM starts to be an issue. With YouTube, maybe 3 tabs max. and I have to restart Firefox every once in a while to flush any memory that it has leaked. BTW, I'm using Firefox 3.6. In my experience, the newer versions of Firefox tend to be much slower (on old hardware, at least).

I also have Opera 11 as a secondary browser. I often find it starts much faster than Firefox and flash seems to run a bit smoother. The downside is heavier RAM usage, but with 1 GB, I doubt you will run out that easily.

And if you want a very fast browser specifically for watching YouTube, good old Internet Explorer 6 is the best for that. Of course, there are a lot of downsides to using IE6, though (security being the biggest!), so I advise you NOT to use it. It also won't render pages properly, so there really is no reason to use it. I only use it when I need to watch YouTube videos in HD/720p on my P4 computers. With Firefox, I can't do that.

Whatever you use, my general advice is to stay away from Chrome. Google Update Service is highly annoying and you will notice a big performance hit with your single core CPU.

[MagnumOpus]

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I've heard good things about SlimBrowser.
(Trident-based like Internet Explorer, but with less bloat).
Haven't tried it, though.

For now, just sticking with IE8 on the XP box, although it can be annoying at times...

[lti]

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Whatever you use, my general advice is to stay away from Chrome. Google Update Service is highly annoying and you will notice a big performance hit with your single core CPU.

I was talking about that in my other post. I can tell when Chrome is updating because the fan in my laptop suddenly starts running at full speed, and it has a quad-core CPU (I think it's actually a dual-core with HT).

[SuperDuty]

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I'm using Opera 10.53 on my Voodoo machine : Celeron 1.3Ghz, 512Mb, Voodoo 5 5500, 80Gb, WinMe, it works greats ! No problem whatsoever, no glitch or messy layouts in websites. I can even watch 480p Youtube videos, though a little laggy.

[momaka]

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(I think it's actually a dual-core with HT).

If it's an i3, then yes.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i3/index.html

I'm using Opera 10.53 on my Voodoo machine : Celeron 1.3Ghz, 512Mb, Voodoo 5 5500, 80Gb, WinMe, it works greats ! No problem whatsoever, no glitch or messy layouts in websites. I can even watch 480p Youtube videos, though a little laggy.

Sounds like it's running great indeed. I may try Opera 10 on one of my computers then. 11 is alright but tends to use a little more RAM than Firefox 3.6.

[lti]

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If it's an i3, then yes.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i3/index.html

Yes, it's an i3-2330M. I didn't think it was a true quad-core CPU.