Lighter software?

[Zeta-K]

I was wondering if anyone has suggestions as to the lightest web browser with good flash capabilities? Also suggestions on some of the lightest gui file browsers (that support file associations)? I mean light as in ram and processor usage. I don't care how much disk space is taken up.

Thanks.

[mips]

Midori?

[3Miro]

Midori?

+1 for Midori. It is the fastest and lightest browser that I know.

[Warpnow]

Chrome is the obvious one.

Dillo is insanely fast but lacks alot of features.

[xxnishantxx]

+1 for google chrome/chromium. just feels really fast

[Warpnow]

Now that I think about it, Opera is really light for its featureset.

[3Miro]

Chrome is the obvious one.

Dillo is insanely fast but lacks alot of features.

If you have enough RAM then Chrome/Chromium is great (I use Chromium myself), however, it can be quite heavy on the RAM.

[TeoBigusGeekus]

See this (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Applications).

[speedwell68]

midori?


+1 for midori. It is the fastest and lightest browser that i know.

+2

[Jesus_Valdez]

Mi do ri

!!!!

[ilovelinux33467]

Midori and rekonq

[MG&TL]

Opera actually looks good and has some features...if it wasn't for flash, I'd have said Lynx :D

[IWantFroyo]

Midori?

Huge +1. I personally love Midori.
Backup web browser: links (;)).

[NightwishFan]

In order of my preference.
Web Browsers: Seamonkey, Epiphany, Midori, elinks (cli)
File Managers: Thunar, Rox Filer, PCManFM

[Copper Bezel]

PCManfm is really an amazingly fast and light file manager for its feature set. I don't use it, preferring a mix of Nautilus and Thunar, but PCManFM blows both of them out of the water for speed, and it really does include all the features a basic file manager needs. (Just no custom actions, bleh.)

[aeronutt]

Are Midori and others as secure (or more secure?) than Firefox and Chrome?

[MG&TL]

Partially, I think, that's why you 'pay' in CPU.

If this was a windows forum, I'd approach a less secure browser with caution, but it's linux, and while it's not immune to viruses/malware, I wouldn't have said the risk was anything to worry about.

[el_koraco]

PCManfm is really an amazingly fast and light file manager for its feature set. I don't use it, preferring a mix of Nautilus and Thunar, but PCManFM blows both of them out of the water for speed, and it really does include all the features a basic file manager needs. (Just no custom actions, bleh.)

If you add the thunar daemon to your autostart file/script/settings, it's faster than pcman.

[Copper Bezel]

Really? Cool. I'll have to do that.

Edit: Ooh, that is fast.

[doorknob60]

For the "full featured" web browsers, I'd say Opera and Midori are probably some of the most light. I have an ancient 400 mhz laptop, and Opera is my browser of choice on it, it's much faster than Firefox, and Chrome is nearly unusable on it (Chrome is surprisingly slow on older computers). (It might be faster than Midori too, I don't remember, haven't used that comp in a long time)

For file managers, PcmanFM is light, but I find it to be buggy sometimes, so I use Thunar and I recommend that, it's still quite light.

[BrokenKingpin]

Does Midori support bookmark syncing... that is the one thing keeping me on Chromium.

As for file managers Thunar or PCManFM. Thunar is nicer looking, but PCManFM supports tabs.

[Jesus_Valdez]

Does Midori support bookmark syncing... that is the one thing keeping me on Chromium.

As for file managers Thunar or PCManFM. Thunar is nicer looking, but PCManFM supports tabs.
What do you mean with bookmark syncing? Like sync your bookmarks among different PC's or to export-import them?

[mips]

Chrome is the obvious one.


How is chrome/chromium lightweight? The latest install from debian testing eats about 700MB of my ram!

I love chrome & it's my default browser but for the love of god lets be objective here.

[Lucradia]

As for file managers Thunar or PCManFM. Thunar is nicer looking, but PCManFM supports tabs.

In Ubuntu though, PCManFM doesn't support desktop. (You need PCManFM2.) However, Debian back a version and a half had desktop support in PCManFM, but no longer.

Also, +1 for Midori.

[BrokenKingpin]

What do you mean with bookmark syncing? Like sync your bookmarks among different PC's or to export-import them?
syncing between PCs. Currently with Chromium/Chrome you can sync all your browser data with you gmail account, so any new machine you setup you just have to put in your credentials and it will download all your bookmarks, etc.

[Lucradia]

syncing between PCs. Currently with Chromium/Chrome you can sync all your browser data with you gmail account, so any new machine you setup you just have to put in your credentials and it will download all your bookmarks, etc.

You know, you could just use .url extension, since a lot of browsers accept that now.

[BrokenKingpin]

You know, you could just use .url extension, since a lot of browsers accept that now.
Could you explain a bit further?

[galacticaboy]

As for light browsers, I find that Midori is super light, but is terrible, it froze and crashed every 5 seconds with me. Chrome/Chromium is uber fast, but the browser is huge. Dillo is great, but as someone already said, it lacks pretty much every feature. Elinks is a good and fast browser, but it is text based. There are many good browsers out there. They all have their ups and downs, but if you are just looking for a small lightweight browser, than +1 for Midori.

[Lucradia]

Could you explain a bit further?

Like with Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer... Firefox can use them too.

[Jesus_Valdez]

As for light browsers, I find that Midori is super light, but is terrible, it froze and crashed every 5 seconds with me. Chrome/Chromium is uber fast, but the browser is huge. Dillo is great, but as someone already said, it lacks pretty much every feature. Elinks is a good and fast browser, but it is text based. There are many good browsers out there. They all have their ups and downs, but if you are just looking for a small lightweight browser, than +1 for Midori.
Midori hasn't crash on me every 5 minutes for a while.

Are you sure you are running the latest version?

[KiraLexi]

I'm quite a fan of Arora.