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Ask HN: Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?

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Re: Ask HN: Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?

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Post by basch »

saagarjha wrote: post #30
anderspitman wrote: post #25

My dream is that someone will spec out a nice simple subset of modern HTML/CSS, and folks will start making compatible static sites. A few years of that and we could have some nice truly lightweight browsers again. Imagine how fast sites like Wikipedia or YouTube could be if JS wasn't even an option.

The problem is that nobody is going to migrate unless a major web player swings a big and likely anticompetitive stick.

If server side rendering and a subset of js were sectioned off, the browser could have an alert icon that says "this website has dreadful performance, click here to quarantine it" that allows people to disable js forever. Websites could comply with the new standard or risk being user quarantined.

Not completely unlike Apples handling of flash.

Re: Ask HN: Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?

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Post by lavignegagnon »

quicklime wrote: post #40
sydd wrote: post #8

I'd use FF with an ad blocker like uBlock Origin, ads can hog tons of resources. Here are some other tips too https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-m...

I’m also using Firefox, but instead of ublock origin I’m using an extension called “Disable JavaScript” combined with the out of the box tracking protection (in strict mode). On my laptop with 4G of RAM, this works fairly well. For the vast majority of news websites, running without js is a huge improvement to both performance and user experience. It even gets around a lot of paywalls. I don’t think the sites that ru…

I discovered this only months ago, but you can configure uBlock Origin to disable javascript, block remote fonts, and/or large media files (check "I am an advanced user" in the settings).

One extension to rule them all!

Re: Ask HN: Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?

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Post by bigasscoffee »

bigasscoffee wrote: post #67

Auto Tab Discard for ff+chrome kills off old tabs without closing them. This frees up the resources allocated for that tab, and the page will reload when you focus on it again.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-tab-discard/j...
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