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What are the best Windows web browsers for slow computers?

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Best Windows web browsers for slow computers	Price	License	Based On
-- K-Meleon	-	OpenSource	N/A
-- Mozilla Firefox	FREE	OpenSource (MPL-2.0)	Netscape>Mozilla Suite
-- Pale Moon	free	OpenSource (MPL-2.0)	Firefox
-- Midori	-	OpenSource	N/A
-- Slimjet	Free	Proprietary	Chromium

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

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License:OpenSource

Browser Engine:Goanna (Gecko-fork)

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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

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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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Highly extensible

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

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Mozilla Firefox

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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

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License:OpenSource (MPL-2.0)

Based On:Netscape>Mozilla Suite

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

Default Search Engine:Google

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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

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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

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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

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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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HTML5 Video Preload

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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Screenshots tool

Powerful screenshots tool built right into the browser. 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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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

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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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Easy screenshots without extensions

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

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A lot of add-ons

An enormous number of add-ons. 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

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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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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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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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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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Uses less resources

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

Midori

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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

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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

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License:OpenSource

Browser Engine:WebKit

Default Search Engine:Lycos

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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

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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

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Lightweight

Incredibly lightweight with very little memory consumption. See More

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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

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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

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Supports insecure cipher suites

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

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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

Brave Browser

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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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Required Android Version:4.1 and Above

Developer:Brave Software

Android version:1.0.30

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Faster than Chrome and Firefox

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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

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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

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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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