I really like Floorp and also like Librewolf + Etc
It has been a while since I used Librewolf, the browser did work pretty well for me, and then I moved to the Floorp browser a year ago. I'll still keep the Floorp browser since it's also open source, but I also noticed that Floorp has 500+ MB compared to Librewolf which has 100+ MB. So I'm kind of torn tbh.
I'll still keep Floorp since my Syncthing is connected to it. I only gripe with Floorp is that it can be a little glitchy, but not anything browser breaking at least, and at most some UI glitches that happens very little. And I'll keep Floorp Browser since I also have some software that's connected to Floorp as well, I'll still give it a bunch of thought.
Maybe one day I'll completely stick to Librewolf browser, but for now. I'll give myself time to think about it.
I was still hoping that I'll try out Ladybird's browser one day too, but I'll still have to wait for it until it's fully released.
I also hope to find another secure web browser for my Windows 7 Thinkpad tablet X61 model, but because it runs 32bit, I'm crap out of luck honestly.
Mar 09 · 8 weeks ago
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I'm pretty fond of Floorp, been using it for a couple years myself. I've been looking for something else to go to as Firefox seems to be getting more and more shaky as time goes by. (They clearly want to dive head first into things like "AI", which I don't at all like). I'm also trying to avoid going to anything Chrome based. Here's hoping that Ladybird, Servo, or something else comes along and gives more options.
👻 darkghost · Mar 09 at 11:55:
@stack has looked at this throughout the years. I forget where they landed on least memory usage. It was either librewolf or vanilla Firefox.
🦔 bsj38381 [OP] · Mar 09 at 21:50:
@darkghost I'm guessing Vanilla Firefox probably has more memory, and it's why I hope to find a 32bit browser for my old ThinkPad tablet X61.
Last year I was desperate about my old laptop overheating and shutting down from browsing. I tried a dozen 'smaller' browsers but the ones that worked ok used even more resources than Livrewolf.
I would avoid vanilla Firefox due to privacy and built-in AI crap
🦔 bsj38381 [OP] · Mar 12 at 01:30:
Aw man, that's a series bummer. (How do smaller web browsers take even more resources, that makes no sense) maybe Lynx could work on my old Thinkpad Tablet, or maybe even R3dfox, but meh.
👻 darkghost · Mar 12 at 09:26:
Midori was my go-to for small but capable. But they were acquired, switched engines to the same one firefox uses (while somehow using more resources than Firefox,) and now peddle some VPN service. Otter uses webkitgtk, which uses more resources than base chromium. It goes on like this until you start getting into less capable browsers like netsurf and links with graphics.
🦔 bsj38381 [OP] · Mar 12 at 14:56:
I tried Netsurf, I still hope it'll get an update since it's the lightest one for far, imo.