What is the most necessary program on a computer? Of course it's a browser. If your computer does not boast high system requirements or you even own a tablet computer running Windows, then your browser should consume as little RAM as possible so that the computer does not slow down and you can continue working with other programs.

Which browser consumes less RAM? This question worries many users for a reason. became much more functional and productive, which could not but affect the consumption of processor resources and RAM.

Which browser consumes the least amount of RAM?

Below we will consider the list of browsers in ascending order, starting with the most economical.

1. Internet Explorer. Oddly enough, but it is Internet Explorer that is the most economical browser for Windows. However, despite the modest consumption of RAM resources, with a large number of open tabs, the browser puts a heavy load on the CPU and starts to simply catastrophically slow down. Not the best solution for everyday use.

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2.Microsoft Edge Are Windows user ten? Then the pre-installed Microsoft Edge browser is at your service, which is not at all like its older brother Internet Explorer. This is a really powerful, functional and economical machine, which, unfortunately, can only be obtained by upgrading to Windows 10.

4 Opera. A powerful and functional browser that will be a great helper for the average person. Alas, on weak computers a significant amount of RAM will be "eaten up", however, if you do not run several resource-consuming programs at once, then Opera will please you with its speed.

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We hope this article helped you decide on the main browser for your computer.

Hi all. You know that there is a browser that consumes little RAM and that does not load the system much and does not eat a lot of RAM.

Yes, there is such a browser, but few people know about it. And this is Pale Moon. I learned about it a long time ago - I liked it because, unlike others, it works under a normal engine - Mozilla, everything is just very optimized and even some processor instructions are taken into account. That is why I can even say that this is the fastest browser for today.

True, I still use Chrome, which is slower than it. Why Chrome? Yes, there are many reasons - bookmarks, necessary extensions, something else .. I don’t remember anymore .. that is, I use Chrome only because I have been with it for more than a year. And not all extensions I need are supported in Pale Moon.

Pale Moon is based on the Mozilla engine, but not the latest version. I don’t know how they change it, it seems out of necessity, but all sites work very well. And yet there is no Russian language - but it is put separately without any problems. After installing Pale Moon and loading some site, you will immediately notice the difference.

You can download Pale Moon here (off site):

It is completely free and does not install anything extra during installation. There is a version in both 32-bit and 64-bit. Installation is simple, should not cause difficulties:

I downloaded the browser, installed it, and launched it - this is what it looks like:

Yes, right away, of course, he is not very. But if you put the Russian language and play around with the interface, then it will become much more convenient. I won’t write about the Russian language - I thought it was difficult to put it. But as it turned out - everything is easy, there is an instruction on the Internet, everything is simple there, if there is a desire, then put it. The main thing of a browser is its speed.

Regarding the RAM and the load on the computer - yes, it loads a little and uses little RAM. But don't forget that sites are not sickly now - it can't be that a heavy site flies in a super-fast browser on an old computer. I hope you understand this.

The browser is great for me. But there are minuses, or minus, only one - extensions. There are few of them and they are special for Pale Moon. I don’t remember exactly - from the usual Mozilla, or all do not fit, or only some work.

Even now - I installed Pale Moon, looked for YouTube - it opened unrealistically quickly. Another site is also unrealistic. Well, simple sites generally open one in a second.

Pale Moon main menu:

I opened a couple of sites. Now they are closed. I looked at the dispatcher - the browser (the palemoon.exe process) uses 200 mega RAM, which seems to be a little bit by today's standards:

Now I have opened the sites again - Google search engine, Apple site, Pale Moon, RBC, YouTube. All loaded:

In the manager, the RAM consumption has increased to 300 megs:

But I must admit that when everything was loading, the consumption reached 360, and as soon as it loaded, it was 300. The entire loading process took a few seconds.

300 megs - a lot or a little? It's hard to answer. I have long ceased to monitor the consumption of operatives. But when I followed, and this was back in the days of Windows XP, then it was optimal - no more than 250 megs. In general, I think that the browser is good and uses little resources.

I didn't write about CPU usage. It all depends on the site itself, if it is heavy, then it can load, but I think that it is short-term, and the sites themselves load quickly. That is, all these processes in the browser are optimized.

On the Internet, or maybe on the official website, you can even find a version for Atom processors.

The browser is installed in this folder:

C:\Program Files\Pale Moon

The size of the folder with the browser weighs almost 100 megs:

The official website has a portable version (portable) - you can put it on a USB flash drive and carry it with you.

To remove the browser, hold Win + R, then paste the command:

Find Pale Moon in the list, right-click and select Delete:

Removed without problems.

That's all. I hope the information was helpful. Good luck.

19.10.2017

When choosing a program to work on the World Wide Web, many are mainly interested in what is currently the fastest browser for Windows 7.

Although there are just a huge number of other criteria for choosing a browser.

To date, you can find and download many "self-written" browsers, that is, those that were developed by novice programmers, and not by teams of professionals.

So, their main drawback is the speed of work.

There is no mention of data security and safety.

In any case, today we will analyze all the main characteristics that will help you choose a program for accessing the Internet, and the main one will be the speed of work.

As for how this very speed will be tested, a very simple method will be chosen, which is to launch the browser or perform other operations on it with a stopwatch.

In particular, the speed will be tested on such operations as launching the browser itself, opening the website, signing in to the Google mail account, launching the video, and installation speed.

Testing will not be done on a new computer.

This choice is due to the fact that we want to achieve maximum objectivity of research.

Yes, such tests usually use "clean" machines, but we all do not have the opportunity to reinstall the operating system every month.

This would make it possible to make a completely “clean” machine out of the order of a used computer.

In general, the conditions will not be easy as close to reality as possible, they will be quite real. Go!

Useful information:

Pay attention to the utility. It is a tool that improves the security of using the Internet. The principle of operation of the program is based on encryption of DNS traffic between the user and the provider.

Opera

This browser was released in 1994. Until 2013, he worked on his own engine, then switched to Webkit + V8, which is familiar to many developers, which, by the way, is also used a little in Google Chrome.

It is the fifth most popular web browser in the world according to research by some sites. Users love the mobile version, which is called Opera Mini.

The main advantage of this program is its excellent ability to save traffic. This allows many users to pay less for internet.

You can download this browser absolutely free on the official website www.opera.com/ru.

This site has one big "Download Now" button, which allows you to start downloading.

For our tests, the latest version downloaded from the official site will be taken.

Speed ​​tests gave the following results:

• Browser startup time - 3 s;
• Website opening time - 2 s;
• Video start time - 2 s;
• Installation time - 1.3 minutes (from launching the installer program to closing it).

By the way, the design of the installation window for this program is very beautiful, but at the same time minimalistic.

The installation process itself takes very little time.

The user only needs to press one button and nothing else - he does not choose a path, does not read a bunch of license terms, does not watch presentations, and so on.

On the one hand, this is, of course, good, because a simple user does not need all this.

But some will say that this is bad, because "who knows what they write in the license there."

But since we evaluate the speed of work, then in this regard, Opera shows itself perfectly.

Other Advantages and Disadvantages of Opera

In addition to speed when choosing a program for accessing the Internet, it will also be useful to know about the following advantages of Opera:

1. Saving traffic. A proprietary feature of this browser.
2. The presence of Turbo mode, which allows you to work even faster on slow computers and still save traffic.
3. Own express panel with bookmarks. In other browsers, this function must be installed additionally. Yes, there are bookmark bars, but they are not as functional.
4. Hot keys of management. In fact, this browser can be controlled without a mouse.
5. Ease of work. Opera is not loaded with plugins for privacy and other similar functions, so it can work many times faster.

The disadvantages of Opera include the following:

1. On older machines, it may not work at all. On the other hand, nothing from the modern standard user set already works on them. And who now uses such old computers?
2. Incorrect work of some scripts. In defense of Opera, we can also say that not all scripts that exist today work on other browsers.
   Complaints about the instability of work - restarts, throws out, and so on. It also occurs not so often - whoever is not lucky will have to restart.

Google Chrome

This browser was released in 2008 - relatively recently.

Its direct ancestor is the Safari browser, which then also tried to be adapted for Windows, but these attempts were unsuccessful - it turned out to be too slow, and it often restarted.

Safari is originally designed for Mac computers. Google Chrome runs on its own engine called Chrominium.

Last year, this browser was the first in many polls in Runet.

You can download Google Chrome on the official website - www.google.ru/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html (a very non-standard link that could be shortened).

There is also a single button that needs to be pressed.

By the way, here, on the download site, you can read the license agreement, as well as set Google Chrome as the default browser and check the box for sending work reports to Google.

By the way, many refuse the latter.

To do this, you just need to uncheck the box highlighted in green in Figure 4.

Testing the speed of this browser gave the following results:

• Browser startup time - 4 s;
• Website opening time - 5 s;
• Authorization time in the Google mail account - 1 s;
• Video start time - 1 s;
• Installation time - 1.5 min.

When installing here, by the way, some additional content is downloaded, which makes the whole process a little longer.

Otherwise, Google Chrome performs really well, but still a little worse than Opera.

And despite the fact that it is this browser that many authors of such articles call the fastest.

As you can see, tests in real conditions gave a different result.

Advantages and disadvantages of Google Chrome

Also, users who choose a program to access the Internet will be very useful to know about the following benefits of Google Chrome:

1. Safety. This is given great attention here. Google Chrome has a huge number of additional programs and scripts that protect against all sorts of attacks and viruses. In addition, this browser has its own database with these same viruses and malicious sites.
2. Mode "Incognito", which allows you to quietly be on different sites. This means that the site will not leave a cookie or any other information about the stay of a user working in Incognito mode.
3. stability at work. It is very rare to hear about Google Chrome that it is reloading or failing to withstand a large number of sites.
4. Your "Task Manager", which makes it possible to see how many resources a particular site consumes, as well as a plugin.
5. Normal work with extensions. It is also very rare to hear complaints about this.
6. Voice search control.

The disadvantages include the following:

1. No support for NPAPI plugins since version 42.0. A lot of modern plugins work on this platform. And users are faced with the difficulties of installing them or even with the inability to complete this task.

Otherwise, Google Chrome performs just fine.

As you can see, its speed is not too inferior to Opera, therefore, given all the other advantages, it is not surprising that this particular browser is called the best to date.

Mozilla Firefox

In 2014, in all foreign surveys, this browser took a strong first place. But then the two programs described above took the leading positions from.

Still, what contribution the “cunning fox”, as many users call it, has made to the development of browsers in general deserves respect.

By good tradition, the site has one big “Download for free” button.

The site no longer has any license agreements. And in general, the download occurs automatically and this process does not delay anything.

In the installer window, you can use additional settings. The settings window is shown in Figure #6.

As you can see, you can specify in it where the program shortcuts should be installed, the installation path, and whether this browser should be made the main one.

Advice: When installing, be sure to use the advanced settings window, because otherwise, program shortcuts will appear on the taskbar, on the desktop and in the Start menu, which users often do not need! In addition, installation information will be sent to Mozilla, and the browser itself will become the default browser.

To open this very window of additional settings at startup, click the "Settings" button, highlighted in Figure No. 7.

The installation itself also begins with downloading additional files. This, of course, makes the process longer.

Mozilla Firefox uptime tests yielded the following results:

• Browser startup time - 5 s;
• Website opening time - 3 s;
• Authorization time in the Google mail account - 1 s;
• Video start time - 2 s;
• Installation time - 1.35 min.

Advantages and disadvantages of Mozilla Firefox

The benefits of Mozilla Firefox are as follows:

1. Reliability at work. There are plugins that can "kill" absolutely all browsers except Mozilla Firefox.
2. Security and privacy at the highest level. This is the only browser of its kind that can block the collection of information about a particular user by sites, including Google. This makes it possible not to see annoying ads that are generated at the request of this user.
3. Version updates happen in the background.
4. In addition, the widest base of plug-ins and extensions mentioned above should also be included here.

The disadvantages of Mozilla Firefox are:

1. Immunity of some modern scripts.
2. Frequent complaints about slow operation, especially at high loads.

From all this, we can conclude that Mozilla Firefox clearly cannot be considered the fastest browser for Windows 7.

Yandex browser

This is the youngest modern browser among those used by several million people. Users first heard about this browser in 2012.

Now, in 2017, Yandex is actively promoting its product using contextual advertising. Here, of course, everything is aimed at working directly with Yandex services.

So in this browser by default there is already mail, a translator, a disk, money and everything else that only the most popular Russian search engine offers.

By the way, the engine in Yandex.Browser is the same Chromium. Many users say that this program has its own quick launch panel, which is called "Scoreboard" here.

This is considered a feature of Yandex.Browser, but for a simple layman, this is practically the same bookmarks bar that is in the same Opera.

True, there it is much more functional.

You can host 20 different sites on Tablo.

An interesting feature of this browser is the work with mouse gestures.

This means that there is a certain set of gestures that are formed by certain cursor movements and perform certain functions.

There are also a huge number of extensions and plugins, most of which are taken from the already beloved Google Chrome.

This is due to the fact that these two browsers run on the same Chromium engine.

You can download Yandex.Browser on the official website - browser.yandex.ru.

Although, if you visit the site yandex.ru several times, you will definitely see an advertisement for this browser and you can follow the link to download it.

This site also has a great big "Download" button.

The results of testing the speed of this browser gave the following results:

• Browser startup time - 11 s;
• Website opening time - 4 s (the first launch, by the way, gave a result of 24 seconds);
• Authorization time in the Google mail account - 4 s;
• Video start time - 2 s;
• Installation time - 2.10 min.

During installation, it is also possible to make Yandex.Browser the default browser and make it possible to send data to Yandex specialists.

To do this, check the box marked in green in Figure 9.

Most users prefer to uncheck these boxes, which is not at all surprising.

As you can see, in terms of speed, Yandex.Browser clearly loses to the same Mozilla Firefox.

Advantages and disadvantages of Yandex.Browser

The advantages of Yandex.Browser are as follows:

1. Developers pay great attention to security. So the program automatically checks a particular site for suspicion. It has its own criteria for suspiciousness (Web of Trust), as well as programs installed by default to block phishing attacks and ads.
2. Own system for viewing documents in such formats as .pdf, .doc and others.
3. Your translator.
4. Turbo mode, like in Opera.

The disadvantages include the following:

1. The imposition of Yandex services, which many users do not like. Although, on the other hand, this browser was created precisely for this.
   A lot of people don't like the interface.
2. Difficulties in setting. Many functions that are in the same Opera or Mozilla are simply not here in Yandex.Browser.

In general, from all this we can conclude that Yandex.Browser is far from the fastest and most optimized browser.

Choosing a browser is simple: just download any of the most popular and, sooner or later, you will definitely get used to it. But in order for the process of learning and further use to be as comfortable as possible, you should know what to look for and count on. Your attention is a list of the most famous free browsers for Windows 7/8/10. Downloading them and trying it for yourself is the best option, but don't be too lazy to read the whole text, save time.

Google Chrome is the cutting edge of web technology

Google Chrome is the most popular browser today, installed on almost every computer. At first, Chrome gained popularity for its speed and flexibility in settings, including by installing browser extensions. Now it is not the fastest browser, but the most functional with support for all the innovations in web technologies. A truly huge library of add-ons allows you to get any functionality.

Chrome has under the hood the Chromium engine, which has become the standard for modern browsers. Most popular browsers are made on the Chromium engine. The engine is responsible for rendering the code of pages and scripts -> into a visible page on the monitor screen.

Browser Advantages:

• All kinds of extensions that can replace standard programs
• Crash control allows you to keep the browser working even during an error in one of the open windows
• Warning the user about visiting malicious sites
• Import settings from any browser
• Multilingual interface
• Automatic updates
• Has a developer toolbar
• with google account
• The built-in task manager allows you to evaluate which of the tabs consumes a lot of CPU and memory resources

• Not very convenient bookmarks, there are no built-in visual bookmarks, but there are
• It does not work well with many open tabs, while it eats a lot of memory, but frees it the fastest after closing them

Google Chrome is currently considered the best browser for Windows 7 and Windows 8/10. But to each his own. For example, I do not like the uninformative download manager and when opening many tabs. True, there is an extension The Great Suspender, which, after a specified time, frees memory from unused tabs. But chrome does not close them, and to see these pages again, you just need to refresh them.

Chrome starts up the fastest on Windows 7, but in the eight and ten things are bad with this - the load time increases by up to two times!

Opera is the best choice

Perhaps there is no browser that is clearer, more understandable and easier to learn for a beginner than Opera. Although Opera is now running on the Chromium engine, it has everything you need to surf without installing additional extensions.

Previously, I used Opera because of convenient visual bookmarks (tiles with the most necessary sites on an empty tab) and a file download manager. Here it is done very conveniently and clearly. Opera is the best browser for dealing with multiple open tabs, and indeed. You can keep several dozen open sites, and this will not particularly affect the speed of work.

Particularly useful, in today's realities, built-in and unlimited traffic. And plus it has a "Turbo" function for compressing transmitted data for . But here you need to experiment. Sometimes, on a slow connection, the opposite effect occurs - the speed decreases even more.

Since the advent of the World Wide Web, called the Internet, surfing facilities have begun to develop at a frantic pace. Web browsers are used as the main tool. But not all of them are equal in terms of their capabilities and the load that they can exert on the system. Let's try to figure out which browser loads the system the least, taking into account the main technical characteristics and reviews of ordinary users.

What is the load on the system?

To understand the meaning of the load, you should directly examine the currently loaded content contained on a particular web resource. It is clear, after all, that if the site is a resource on which only text is presented, there is nothing to talk about. The system reads the text in any encoding and does not particularly strain.

The question of which browser is the least burden on the system should be considered in terms of multimedia content or development tools provided by the browsers themselves.

If we talk about multimedia, it should immediately be taken into account that the processing tools provided in the main versions of the programs are often supplemented by a fairly large number of special plug-ins. Take at least the same Adobe Flash Player, which is responsible for the high-quality reproduction of animation, graphics and sound.

Thus, the relevant question will not be so much about which browser eats the least resources, but about how resource-intensive an additional plug-in is, because the browser itself in its pure form may not work with some elements of web pages.

Basic performance parameters

If we consider the main characteristics of the most famous and most commonly used tools, in the first place for any user or expert tester is the speed of launching the program itself from an executable file and the speed of opening pages.

Unfortunately, many users who are trying to figure out which browser loads less CPU or RAM often miss the application start options. So to say, in its pure form after installation, they all start quickly enough. This is due only to the fact that they do not have plug-ins connected, the cache is not filled, there is no browsing history, etc.

Over time, any, even the most sophisticated browser with a bunch of lotions turns into a clumsy bumpkin. The saddest thing is that even deleting temporary files does not help. And if we also take into account the initialization of plug-ins at the start of the program, in general, it is worth thinking about the advisability of installing them.

Some applications have their own set that cannot be deleted, but can be disabled. For example, Chrome comes with built-in components like Adobe Flash Player or AdBlock. If everything is clear with the first plugin, the second sometimes causes legitimate criticism. It is responsible for blocking ads, pop-ups and banners, and may also prevent some automatically executed scripts and applets embedded in web pages from working. And all this takes a lot of time.

Opening pages with a preliminary content analysis directly depends on the content. Any of the modern browsers spends a fraction of a second on this. Again, it all depends on the plugins - the more there are, the slower the program works. And incorrectly installed or incompatible add-ons slow down the system even more.

Which browsers use less memory?

But let's start checking the means of accessing the Internet themselves. Here you should take into account the consumption of RAM, virtual and physical memory. If you understand the question of which browser loads the system the least, you should pay attention to the basic default settings and the size of the allocated cache.

Cached data, although it allows opening the most frequently visited pages by saving some elements on the hard drive, is nevertheless capable of clogging the system too much and causing program freezing effects. This is due to the constant analysis of the loaded structural elements of the pages. With a sufficiently large number of them, more time is required for analysis and loading.

In this regard, Internet Explorer 11, Edge from Windows 10, Mozilla and Google Chrome show the best indicators, judging by the feedback from users and experts. Opera, although a very popular means of accessing the Internet, is much slower. In addition, today you can find so many versions of the program in unofficial sources that you do not always know whether this product is safe.

and reviews

If you look at it, you can make a list, in which, as you might expect, there are only programs of the most famous developers:

• Internet Explorer;
• edge;
• Opera;
• Mozilla Firefox;
• Chrome.

It would be possible to add here some programs like Amigo, Yandex Browser, 360 Safety Browser or something else. But they are specifically not included in the list, because they are built on the basis of Chrome and are not of interest as truncated or extended derivatives of the main product. Often, due to undeveloped technologies and algorithms, problems arise in them much more than in the parent product. This is evidenced by clearly unflattering statements from users.

Now let's dwell on the question of which browser loads the system the least.

Internet Explorer

Users have developed an extremely negative attitude towards IE, which is part of any Windows operating system, since the early versions of the program were so unfinished that it was not even necessary to talk about any convenience of working on the Internet.

Over time, developers from Microsoft revised the basic concept of the browser, resulting in the 11th version of the application. No matter what anyone says, Internet Explorer 11 outdoes both Mozilla and Chrome, and even more so Opera, in all respects. The load is minimal, the start is much faster than similar applications, clearing the cache and temporary files does not require user intervention, as it was before (it was necessary to clean the Temporary Files folders manually).

edge

The same Internet Explorer became the progenitor of a new generation browser called Edge, which appeared only in Windows 10 (the version is not provided for systems below the rank).

This application rightfully occupies the top lines in all ratings. Most of the background processes when the program is launched are automated, the start is made within a couple of seconds, opening pages even without installing related plugins is very fast. By the way, you don’t need to install add-ons either - everything is included here.

Another thing is that this browser is somewhat inconvenient to set up, especially in terms of disabling extensions. And the default start page is a little annoying (news, weather, advertising, etc.). But all this can be turned off if you set a dummy at startup, like how it is done in IE.

Opera

The notorious Opera, although revered by many, has recently lost ground. Despite the convenient and fairly simple interface, the performance leaves much to be desired.

Even at startup, you may notice too long access to the hard disk, as well as when completely clearing the cache and deleting temporary files. True, in the pros you can write down the ability to quickly configure, disable or remove extensions. But this in no way can affect the overall assessment.

Mozilla Firefox

Finding the answer to the question of which browser loads the system the least cannot do without this browser.

Light and fast - that's what you can say about it. However, not all users fully appreciate it. The fact is that the "Fire Fox" cannot be considered as the most primitive means of accessing the Internet. This browser is more suitable for web developers and can be used as a complete platform for building web applications. The toolkit here is much wider than everything that other favorites of the list offer.

Chrome and browsers based on it

Chrome is considered the fastest of all currently existing browsers. Developments based on it differ in speed only after the first installation, and over time they start to slow down incredibly.

And the speed of launch, and the speed of opening pages, and ease of setup or management - at their best. Plus - the largest number of developed plugins and extensions. The question is different. Should they be installed? This is already decided by everyone. Nevertheless, in all the main indicators in the lists of popularity, this browser is not inferior to Edge.

What to choose?

So, we choose Of course, preference (based on user reviews) could be given to Microsoft products, however, it is believed that installing Chrome would be the best option.

And here they speak in favor of choice not only specifications or performance settings with a minimum load on the system. Looking more broadly, you can see that the latest version of the application supports RDP (remote desktop) technologies and can be used as the main client to connect to computers and laptops, even from mobile devices.

Thus, the balance in the question of which browser loads the system the least, is the easiest to manage and configure, clearly leans in favor of Chrome, although this assessment is based solely on ratings, no more.