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What are the best Windows web browsers for slow computers?

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May 12, 2022

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Best Windows web browsers for slow computers	Price	Based On	License
93 K-Meleon	-	Mozilla ESR 31	OpenSource (GNU GPL)
82 Pale Moon	free	Firefox ESR 38	Open Source (MPL-2.0)
72 Brave Browser	-	Chromium core	OpenSource (MPL)
65 Mozilla Firefox	FREE	Netscape>Mozilla Suite	OpenSource (MPL-2.0)
-- Mypal	-	PaleMoon (Moonchild Productions)	-

K-Meleon

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Fast and lightweight

Light on memory footprint: the smallest RAM amount used among all the modern browsers. Fastest application startup. Very responsive. Invaluable on the older and low-end hardware. See More

Top Con

Extremely dated interface

The UI is ugly, which is forgivable, but sticking to a setup from the early 00s makes using it clunky. See More

SophisticatedCottus's Experience

insanely slow on Youtube, and maybe other video streaming? on old comp running youtube is usually slow on chrome-based browsers but was waaay slower on this See More

Specs

Based On:Mozilla ESR 31

License:OpenSource (GNU GPL)

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork)

Top Pro

Highly extensible

Has hundreds of its native extensions written on its own macrolanguage. Supports dozens of XPI-extensions for Firefox. See More

Top Con

The logo looks like a alien

The logo needs to be updated. See More

ConfidentOrithyia's Experience

small RAM footprint. responsive though there are still bugs See More

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Secure and fully under user control

No malware/adware toolbars/extensions can be injected. You can switch off Java, JS, Flash, popups, and Ads from the toolbar or with a hotkey. See More

Top Con

Dead

ended in 2016 See More

SpiritedNargun's Experience

TOO FAST IN MY TEST OLD¨PC 3GB RAM IT WORKED REALLY NICE AND NOW I CAN WATCH YOUTUBE AND ANOTHER THING SMOOTHLY THANKS SO MUCH K-MELEON See More

Top Pro

Extremely customizable

Almost every detail can be personalized: skin buttons (icon theme and on/off state) toolbar placement menus number of settings and preferences proxies (add and switch with ease) locale (switch on the fly without downloads and restarts) etc. See More

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Pale Moon

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Light on resources, although it's not its main focus

Top Con

Entire browser slows down after a few tabs

Open a few tabs then everything dies. See More

ImaginativeKui's Experience

Palemoon works much faster than Firefox, Edge or Google Chrome on my old Phenom II 965 black 3.4ghz quad core, 32gb ddr3L ram, Fujitsu FSX 240gb SLC ssd on a Asus M4A78T-E motherboard running windows 7 Ultimate powered by a Seasonic 1050X, with 4x 6tb Hitachi (0F23001) hard drives plus a pcie sata controller card with 2x 3tb hitachi HD's. My HTPC is now waiting for the next gen graphics card 8K 60FPS, just for the newer movies. See More

Specs

Based On:Firefox ESR 38

License:Open Source (MPL-2.0)

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork), SpiderMonkeys

Default Search Engine:DuckDuckGo

Top Pro

A secret version for android is available

Since its not available on google play, you can go to your settings and tap app permissions. There you can tap the browser and turn on installing unknown apps. If you did this, press this link and search in Pale Moon. There you can download and install it. See More

Top Con

Lacks popular extensions and adblockers

Top Pro

Supports complete themes

Pale Moon supports complete themes, something which Firefox used to have before version 57. See More

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Open source

So we can verify that the browser is not spyware. See More

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Customizable

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Support for GTK themes

Pale Moon supports your GTK theme while Firefox does not. See More

Top Pro

Has its own library of legacy extensions

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Optimized for modern processors

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Independent from Google and Mozilla

Pale Moon is an independent fork of an older version of Firefox. Therefore, it is independent from Mozilla and are not affected by their terrible decisions such as removing XUL, adding telemetry, pocket, etc. See More

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Has its own add-on ecosystem, built on time-tested technologies such as XUL (plus JS and CSS) and XPCOM

"Classic" Firefox add-ons can work, but they are not supported and should be updated or forked to become a Pale Moon add-on. See More

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Uses Goanna layout engine

Unlike most other browsers, Pale Moon uses its custom engine. See More

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Stable

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Good community support

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Support for existing web standards

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Respects your privacy

Contains much less spyware than Chrome and Firefox and all of it can easily be disabled. See More

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Designed for usability, not the shiny new things

Brave Browser

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Free and Open Source

It is a free to use browser in Android and also open source, so anyone can help contribute to the browser. See More

Top Con

HTML5 video support is lacking compared to other browsers

DelightfulKaratgurk's Experience

fast and appears not to use all memory resources See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium core

License:OpenSource (MPL)

Browser Engine:Blink

Top Pro

Built-in Adblocker

This feature ensures an ad-less web experience, while also having a performance improvement in loading websites up to 4 times faster. See More

EncouragingKurdalaegon's Experience

Great, Fast , More Than A Browser See More

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Privacy protection

Brave protects users with privacy and security features such as HTTPS Everywhere, script blocking, 3rd party cookie blocking, and private incognito tabs. See More

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Faster than Chrome and Firefox

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Website downloads

Brave downloads webpages quickly and efficiently, and they are easy to access once downloaded. See More

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Now supports Chrome Webstore

It's now a faster, less intrusive Chrome. See More

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Very fast

The fastest browser out there. See More

Mozilla Firefox

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WebRender

The newer versions of it will soon use WebRender to render webpages, which'll make it much more efficient by utilizing GPU to paint webpages. See More

Top Con

Not windows 7 32bit friendly

HilariousAkras's Experience

best browser xD See More

Specs

Based On:Netscape>Mozilla Suite

License:OpenSource (MPL-2.0)

Browser Engine:Gecko, Webkit on iOS(since Apple does not allow third party web engines)

Default Search Engine:Google

Top Pro

Text-to-speech (with adjustable speed) without add-ons

Firefox Reader Mode includes Narrate, a feature that adds text-to-speech functionality to the browser. See More

Top Con

False positives in virus-scanner

All Downloads in Firefox are scanned for viruses, but there are a lot of false positives. See More

Top Pro

Dark theme

Beyond the toolbar and tabs, it darkens UI elements such as the URL-bar, pop-downs, new-tab page and more. See More

Top Con

Doesn’t support multiple languages for spell check

If you write in multiple languages, you need to manually switch the spell check language. See More

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Screenshots tool

Powerful screenshots tool built right into the browser. See More

Top Con

Terrible user interface

And you can't even fix it anymore because they removed XUL See More

Top Pro

High performance

The Firefox Quantum update (FF57) greatly increases the render speed and general performance of the browser, by taking better advantage of the user's hardware. See More

Top Con

Multi profile are not user friendly

Multi profile require commandline -no remote to use and open about:profiles to create manually (on Chrome, you can instantly create them on right top user button). See More

Top Pro

Easy screenshots without extensions

Within the browser itself, you can easily take screenshots and save them to your computer. See More

Top Con

Crappy license

Cannot redistribute binary after source code modification. See More

Top Pro

A lot of add-ons

An enormous number of add-ons. See More

Top Con

Partial dark mode

Bookmark, context menu, etc. are not themed. See More

Top Pro

Uses less resources

Firefox 57 (Quantum) and newer uses less resources than ever. It is proven with benchmark done by AppleInsider. See More

Top Con

Uses GTK on Linux/BSD

This makes the integration on non-GTK Desktop Environments very hard. See More

Top Pro

One of the few browsers not using Chrome's Blink engine

Firefox uses its own rendering engine (called Gecko), instead of Google-controlled Blink like the vast majority of other browsers. See More

Top Con

Uses Google as its default search engine

Which is pretty ironic for a browser that's focused on "privacy". See More

Top Pro

Screenshot tool

Powerful screenshot tool built right into the browser. See More

Top Con

Sometimes very buggy and slow

On sites like twitch.tv chat scrolling is still not fixed. Compared to other browsers Firefox is still very slow and feels sluggish. See More

Top Pro

Firefox Lockwise Password Management

Helps store your usernames and passwords. Lockwise also lets you know if any of the sites you have login details for have had their (and potentially your) data leaked! See More

Top Con

Installs Addons with updates

Mozilla is installing/integrating addons with every update like the Mr. Robot promotion - it also has integrated Pocket that spams you every time you open the browser or a new tab with partners of Pocket. See More

Top Pro

Very secure

Top Con

Cannot directly translate page

Unlike Google Chrome, if you visit a website with a different language, you cannot translate it, which is a bad user experience for some. See More

Top Pro

Built-in Privacy Protection

Blocks tracking cookies, finger print scanners and Cryptominers by default. Can be changed to the user's individual needs. See More

Top Con

Lack of keyboard shortcuts customization

Keyboard shortcuts can not be changed in a user-friendly way. It is also difficult to manipulate addons with hotkeys. See More

Top Pro

Fast bookmark management

In order to add an open page to the bookmark bar, the tab can be dragged down and is added immediately. See More

Top Con

When you search in a website (Ctrl + F) there are no marks appearing in the right scrollbar

All Chromium based browsers have this feature. See More

Top Pro

HTML5 Video Preload

The only web browser that only preloads entire HTML5 video which is useful for slow internet. See More

Top Con

GTK Themes styles the HTML forms

If you're in Linux and you use a dark GTK theme that uses white text and come to a webpage that forces black text on html-forms buttons you will get black buttons with unreadable black text. See More

Top Pro

Firefox Lockwise password management

Helps store your usernames and passwords. Lockwise also lets you know if any of the sites you have login details for have had their (and potentially your) data leaked! See More

Top Con

Some built-in advertising

With their new "pocket" feature, they offer advertisements built-in. See More

Top Pro

Integration with Pocket

Firefox comes with built-in Pocket integration that can allow users to quickly save the article for a read it later function to easily find any articles saved in Pocket from various sources and devices. See More

Top Pro

Reader View

Reader View in Firefox allows users to read an article without any distractions by removing ads, unrelated elements and other distractive objects (similar to Microsoft Edge's Reading Mode and Safari's reader mode). See More

Top Pro

Firefox Experiments

FF Experiments are Mozilla projects available from FF Test Pilot, such as Firefox Colour, witch lets you customise your browser theme to your liking! See More

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Android version allows installation of addons

Unlike other browsers, Mozilla uses almost the same codebase as with the desktop version so extensions work as-is without code modifications - something other browsers cannot do due to their breaking and sometimes unrelated code branches to the mainline desktop branch. See More

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Automatically updated

Firefox is automatically updated on the platforms where it makes sense. See More

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Tagging bookmarks

Firefox is one of the few browsers that you can tag your bookmarks. You can view a list of tags and can search your bookmarks in the address bar with tags. See More

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Good font rasterizing

Font rasterizing on Windows is much better than in competitors. Even smaller text is clear and contrast. See More

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Awesome customizability

Great library of add-ons. See More

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Strong developer tool

The built-in developer tools have been merged with the popular FireBug extension since FF57. See More

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Syncs between devices

Firefox Sync is an optional feature in Firefox that allows syncing bookmarks, passwords, and add-ons between devices. See More

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Strong HTML5 feature support

Firefox scores strongly on HTML5 feature support Though not as strongly as Chromium/Chrome browsers do. See More

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Free, open source and community driven

Firefox is available as a free download. All Mozilla software is licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Instructions on how to obtain the source code can be found here. See More

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Really independent browser

It is really independent browser, unlike many other that are based on Chromium. See More

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Respects your privacy

Mozilla is one of the first browsers that advocates privacy. They believe that internet should be in the user's control and not those who run the websites, and so they give tools inside the browser to make the user be more in control. See More

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Fast

With new integrations focused on security and performance, Firefox is faster and less likely to have problems during use than ever before. See More

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Ethical and pragmatic company mission

The Mozilla Manifesto outlines the company's mission and principles. Paraphrasing, they want the Internet to be a free and open resource, and to enable individuals to get the best use of that resource. They do this by creating open source software to which anyone may contribute, so long as such contributions fit with their principles (both ethical and technical). See More

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Open source

Open Source means that you can see the source code. So everybody even if they don't work for Mozilla is able to look what the browser does in the background. So you can be 100% sure that Firefox doesn't have hidden "spy features" unlike Google Chrome. See More

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Lower memory fingerprint than competitors

Firefox used to be a trailer in memory usage, but as of 2017 it's less hungry for memory than competitors like Edge, Chrome, Safari and Opera. See More

Top Pro

Open Source

Open Source means that you can see the source code. So everybody even if they don't work for Mozilla is able to look what the browser does in the background. So you can be 100% sure that Firefox doesn't have hidden "spy features" unlike Google Chrome. See More

Midori

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Very fast

Midori is considerably fast. It starts up in no time and renders pages as fast as many other more well-known browsers. See More

Top Con

Development stalled

There have been no recent updates. Lags other browsers in supporting modern web standards. Many distributions have replaced it with other browsers See More

Specs

License:OpenSource

Browser Engine:WebKit

Default Search Engine:Lycos

Top Pro

Useful plugins are built-in

Some very popular and useful plugins are built-in and available out of the box. For example, there's an RSS feed reader plugin and an Adblocker built-in. See More

Top Con

Another bloatware as firefox

It is described as a lightweight browser but it is just a bloatware. It crashes sometimes. It is a clone of firefox which is said to be a RAM-eater. See More

Top Pro

Allows using webapps as if they were desktop apps

Midori has a built-in functionality with which you can create web apps that can be launched from the desktop. For example, you can create a web app for the desktop to launch Gmail or YouTube or any other web app that you use. See More

Top Con

Misbehaves with Google Web Apps

On some distributions Midori may not work very well for Google Web Apps. On openSUSE for example, Midori starts misbehaving when you are going through Google Drive's folder hierarchy. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight

Incredibly lightweight with very little memory consumption. See More

Top Con

Supports insecure cipher suites

This browser supports RC4 encryption which is known to be insecure compared to other encryptions such as AES. See More

Top Con

Unfamiliar UI

The UI can take a little to getting used to because it's not very conventional or similar to other browsers. For example, it uses a trashcan icon to view recently visited links. See More

Vivaldi

Top Pro

Compatible with all Chrome extensions

Since Vivaldi is built on Chromium, the same base as Chrome (among other browsers) is built on, it was possible for Vivaldi developers to allow Chrome extensions to run in their browser. See More

Top Con

Very unnecessarily customizable

You can customize it in many ways. However, there are many features an average web browser user doesn't need. See More

CapableZipacna's Experience

Takes A LOT of ram See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium core with proprietary UI

License:BSD+Proprietary

Platforms:Windows; macOS; Linux; Android

Top Pro

Lots of features and customizability

Vivaldi has a lot of features and customizability. Far more then most (perhaps all) other browses, and many to list them all individuality as separate pros. See More

Top Con

Slower than chrome

Top Pro

Ability to search through settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks in one place

A feature called Quick Commands (accessed via Ctrl + Q) allows quickly getting to settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks with incremental search. See More

Top Pro

Tabs can be stacked

Tabs can be grouped under a single tab to easily keep track of all open webpages. See More

Opera

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Speed Dial

Opera's Speed Dial (new tab page) has the ability to hold as many websites as you want, and you can customize it almost however you want. You can also organize the websites on the Speed Dial into folders. See More

Specs

Based On:Chromium core with proprietary UI

License:Proprietary

Browser Engine:Blink

Default Search Engine:Google

Top Pro

You can install extensions on the sidebar

Unlike other browsers, you can install add-ons such as tabs, bookmarks, history, sessions, notes, and extension manager in the sidebar. So you have the flexibility to use it for your purpose. See More

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Blazingly fast

Scores top on Basemark. See More

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Built-In Adblocker

The built-In adblocker is faster than any extension. It's possible to add your own filter lists. However, the adblocker isn't enabled by default. See More

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VPN onboard

Free and fast VPN onboard, includes Germany, Canada, USA, Netherlands, Singapore. See More

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Video pop-out feature

You can pop-out any video and it will stay on top while you are surfing on other tabs. See More

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Compatible with Chrome extensions

Since Opera is built on Blink, the same engine Chromium is built on, it was possible for Opera developers to allow Chrome extensions to run in their browser. See More

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Lightweight

It doesn't consume much RAM, unlike Chrome. See More

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Strong HTML5 feature support

Opera scores highly on HTML5 feature support. See More

Top Pro

Opera Sync

Opera Sync allows you to synchronize your bookmarks, passwords, and more from any computer, phone, or tablet. See More

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Customizable

Opera is full of user controlled settings. Everything can be imported and exported even RSS feeds. It can be skinned in a variety of different themes or it can be extended through the use of a large number of plugins available. See More

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Opera can have extensions from Opera Addons & Chrome Store websites

Opera supports cross-browser extensions. Opera Addons site keeps quality up compared to Chrome Store. Full of useful extensions, Opera also supports extra APIs like Speed Dial API, Extension Sidebar API and Stash API meaning wider variety of extension possibilities than in Chrome. See More

Top Pro

Built-in currency converter

Just highlight price on a website and see this price in your currency. See More

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Touch bar support

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Portable

You can save the Opera's setup files on a USB hard drive and run its portable version anywhere. See More

Top Pro

Partly open source

Source code available on GitHub. See More

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Battery saving mode

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Opera Turbo

Opera has a functionality called Turbo which increases browsers speed and reduces data consumption considerably by compressing the data that's found in a web page. See More

Slimjet

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Still based upon Chromium/Chrome

Can yield to bloat if clogged with too many plugins and apps from the webstore. See More

Top Pro

Still compatible with Google's ChromeSync functionality

Sign in to back up your extensions and settings, just like always. See More

ImmaculateNidaba's Experience

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Specs

Based On:Chromium

License:Proprietary

Browser Engine:Blink

Default Search Engine:Google

Top Con

Stores your history/settings into Google servers

Top Pro

Fast and stable

Lower memory footprint and CPU usage than Chromium. See More

CoolAtira's Experience

Até agora muito satisfeito com o desempenho do Slimjet See More

Top Con

It spies on you

Top Pro

Built-in adblock

Supports adding lists in ublock, adblock, adblockplus, and peerblock/peerguardian text formats. See More

Top Con

Takes a lot of time

It takes a lot of time to open sites. See More

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Screen recording tools built-in

Top Con

Stores your history/settings into google servers

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Takes a lot of time

It takes a lot of time to open sites. See More

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