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What is the lightest web browser - processor / ram wise?

I have a pretty old computer (10 year old IBM Aptiva) and at the moment i'm using firefox 2 on it. Any suggestions as to whether there is a faster alternative?

Update:

Found the answer on another website; Mozilla - Phoenix.

So far my computer is running like new!

There are a few websites that don't load perfectly, but they're still usable, and anyway it's still in beta.

The nice thing about it is that every time they upgrade it it gets even smaller!

I'd seriously recomend this if you have a netbook or a slow or old computer.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/releases/0.5....

Update 2:

Oh! har har, Phoenix is just the old Firefox, funny, i knew that allready, but because the webpages acted as if they were modern i assumed they had released something else with the same name. Still, Phoenix is working for me, and i have another firewall programe that should keep my computer safe.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Google Chrome is very lightweight and the fastest of the more main-stream browsers that I've seen.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    RAM and processor are two different things. RAM should be 2GB Celeron...It's a BROKE Pentium. Any Pentium processor that FAILS testing gets changed to the lower class called Celeron. AMD has no such thing as sub-standard processors.

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