Hi all,

 

I just gotta tell you about my last few days of review and research to find a web browser that suits and is fast.

 

Well   !!   I may have just found it ..... 

I had Firefox which I just got fed up with as I couldn't do anything ...so slow, freezing, sluggish ... so I removed it.

 

Opera -   not to bad, medium speed, has a middle range of ad ons, however ... won't open many pages due to certificate issues or untrusted server.

MaxthonMX5 -  At first I thought it was good, after a few hours it also became medium to slow ... it is good in that it lets you decide on untrusted sites.

Maxthon Nitro -  fast, open very quickly, however there are no ad ons or extensions, also won't open half of the normal web sites I wanted too.

Epic Browser -   no go ...  tried to download and run on Windows XP ....  won't work.

FWB fastest web browser -  tried this, it was ultra fast at opening it's start page but that's it .....  no go after that.

Ultrasurf -  no go ... tried with Windows XP .. won't work.

 

Then I found K-Meleon web browser  !!   fast, clean, open pages very quickly,  so far has opened all the normal pages one would like, I haven't looked into the extensions or ad on as yet ....  I would like some secure ad on to block trackers and hackers.

The K-Meleon web browser is from the Firefox group of browsers.

 

So I will see how it performs over the coming days and go from there ... but up till now it appears to be the best. 

K-Meleon hasn't been updated in years, but I guess if you're happy running Win XP you're not too worried about security issues.

Personally I use Chrome on win 10 with no issues. 

 

Perhaps your loyalty to win 3.1 is the issue here, not browser performance.

 

Are you holding out for a coal fired cpu to speed things up even more? That way when things slow down you can just shovel faster. 

 

Edited February 1, 20197 yr by metempsychotic

51 minutes ago, steven100 said:

I had Firefox which I just got fed up with as I couldn't do anything

In fact, Firefox is the only browser that you can modify to suit your needs.

3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

In fact, Firefox is the only browser that you can modify to suit your needs.

maybe correct ....   but to be honest firefox just got so slow it would take ages to open a page so I trashed it.  I did try everything ... reinstall ... ad ons blocked, safe mode, ...  nothing was good...

nothing even came close to K-Meleon ....  

I don't care if it's 5 years or 10 years old .... it's fast and I can ad privacy and protection .... that's fine for me ....

It is super fast IMO    !!!   which the Firefox, IE , Opera could not do becuase they have to many things hanging off them .... 

Take it easy. A couple of milliseconds more to open a page, what the hell.

 

SSD and loads of RAM make boot up faster...........by how much, go make a cuppa while it boots in the morning, then don't turn it off again.

27 minutes ago, steven100 said:

maybe correct ....   but to be honest firefox just got so slow it would take ages to open a page so I trashed it.  I did try everything ... reinstall ... ad ons blocked, safe mode, ...  nothing was good...

nothing even came close to K-Meleon ....  

I don't care if it's 5 years or 10 years old .... it's fast and I can ad privacy and protection .... that's fine for me ....

It is super fast IMO    !!!   which the Firefox, IE , Opera could not do becuase they have to many things hanging off them .... 

You might like to try Netscape Navigator, easy on resources

11 minutes ago, Stocky said:

You might like to try Netscape Navigator, easy on resources

I miss CompuServe so much

4 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

I miss CompuServe so much

We were all numbers then.

WIndows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft, I would at least upgrade to WIn 7 before experimenting with browsers. 

 

On 2/1/2019 at 8:27 PM, Stocky said:

You might like to try Netscape Navigator, easy on resources

i know this is being sarcastic but..

small applications, sure. I still use original Winamp 2.95 from 2003 with quite a few addons..

any version after that was bloatware (this one uses average of 20 MB of memory WITH the song loaded in memory)

but for a browser? I wouldn't do it due to security issues.