@nostupidquestions which are the light weight browsers that can browse literally any modern website ? (edited)
Even Chromium browsers, which is unfortunately the standard most websites are built around, don’t support everything that well. Can’t be done.
There is a Waterfox Portable, but lately I haven’t been able to get it to use Video Calls on things such as Discord or Zoom (it worked in the past, might be a current update issue).
Lynx
@just_another_person any modern website ? YouTube ? Facebook ? Instagram ?
Amazing. It can ingest ANY website, and flawlessly render all content faster than any other browser converts to text. Built-in Ad and Content Blocking too!
@just_another_person Are you serious ?
No, they’re unhelpfully trolling you because they’re autistic teenagers.
Lynx is a text-only browser. It’s cool but it’s not what you asked for.
💯 it will render absolutely any site flawlessly, yup.
I assume that’s referring to flawlessly as not working, in those cases. Intentionally.
Literally none without jank. Javascript and HTML5 are monsters and it just isn’t possible to get a universally flawless experience without them.
Your best bet is if you’re willing to give up a significant amount of fidelity (and images). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
Realistically speaking, the most lightweight browser capable of using modern websites and not just being reskinned Firefox or some Chromium-based browser is Luakit.
It uses Webkit for rendering and Lua for configuration – but be aware, the configuration is absurdly overcomplicated and complex and extremely poor documented.
For what platform?
We’re no longer just rendering text anymore. It’s at the point webpages are basically compiled in real time.
It’s no longer possible unless you give up a lot
A “minimum RAM, maximum screen real estate” browser?
I’ve used many browser forks. But I needed one for that specific constraint, and my search landed me on Zen Browser.
However, keep in mind that extensions are heavy. If you need (for example) adblocking, then a browser integrating an Adblock engine natively is best.
literally any
chrome.
I’m guessing you’re looking for librewolf or waterfox, though I doubt they are strictly lightweight or can browse literally any modern website.
I’ve used librewolf daily for at least 3 years, and it can browse figuratively any modern website.
I would say figuratively any. There are a few websites that build on Chrome-specific web features, but it’s not prohibitively many.
I can confirm that the car building website thing for ordering a new BMW doesn’t work with Librewolf.
Anyway, I didn’t buy a BMW.
I’ve been testing DDG browser on Android for a couple of days. Seems to block ads and popups well. Has a built in youtube player which will be handy the next time youtube blocks the frontend. AI can be disabled.
😂
I wish this existed :'(
Pale Moon Portable
give it a shot , its opensource and very light weight
…just make sure op is at least 30, so can handle a 15 year old firefox ui and featureset and lacking extensionsupport
Whatever’s the most debloated version of firefox or chrome.
You will not get all websites on something thats light weight. Web browsers are basically mini operating systems at this point.
as usually you have to go with privacy respecting open source browsers, cause those dont get pointless feature integrations. you havent specified the platform so:
- for android: ironfox, fennec, helium
- for pc: ungoogled chromium, librewolf, helium
you should also look around on alternativeto.net
If the “literally any modern website” part is a hard requirement, then I would suggest to go for a fork of modern mainstream browsers with strong privacy/adblocking features. The justification for this is that browser engines can only get so light in terms of complexity and still support modern sites, but sites themselves can be made to be less resource demanding on the browser by selectively blocking unwanted elements. Adblocking is the obvious, blocking unwanted JavaScript would likely be the next best bang for the buck, but even clearing the cache after each session can make the browser feel faster if your bottleneck is memory/cpu instead of the network.
