Yesterday we posted about Memory usage of the browsers, and suggested K-Meleon as an option as a light browser. The issue with K-Meleon is that they stopped development and last update was around 30 months back (Update: They started development again, new version is on Beta stage). K-Meleon will not work well with Google plus, even you spoof it, many features will not work. So here we have some more browsers who are active still, and have a very small memory footprint. We will consider Green Browser, Columbus and SlimBoat.
Here is the memory footprint of these 3 browsers
Without Tabs
Just one tab with Google on it
4 Tabs opened
5 Tabs opened and waited for 45 minutes
Green Browser
Green Browser is have a very light memory footprint. This browser is based on the Trident rendering engine used in Internet Explorer. This includes many tools like
AD Filter, Mouse Gesture, Mouse Drag, Auto Fill Form, Auto Scroll, Auto Refresh, Auto Save, Auto Hide, Search Bar, Identity, General Form, Auto Submit Form, Send Key to Page, External Toolbar, Collector, Page Manager, Download Manager, Group, Plugin, Skin, Proxy, Start Mode, URL Alias, Quick Key, Link List, Status Bar Setting, Sort Save Page, Clean System, Page Download Control, Page Zoom, Page Background Color, Speed Dial,
I still had some small issues with Google plus and Hangout
You can read more and get Green Browser from here
Columbus Browser
Columbus browser is another light weight browser. The customization option of this browser is very less it seems.
The home page does not seems to be changeable, also the middle click on links will not open on new tabs. It is a bit tough again to use if you are coming from a browser like IE, Opera, Firefox or Chrome.
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SlimBoat Browser
Slimboat is a free web browser which offers a portable version for Windows too. This is using the Webkit Engine.
Features
Download Manager
Ad Blocker
Text Translation
Popup Blocker
Integrate with Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Blogger, Wordpress, Gmail, Hotmail, StumbleUpon
Download Youtube Videos
and More…
But the Slimboat does not seems to be a lightweight browser compared to others
Read more and download SlimBoat Browser
So if you are in search for the best lightweight browser compare this post with the other one described on the first paragraph and decide which one to select.