Well, I need a browser

[nilanko]

I have an old PC with Intel P4 Northwood and Intel 845G chipset. Doing even little tasks such as web browsing take a lot of CPU. I don't have any crap running in background.

-I love Firefox, but it's quite laggy and puts the CPU to 100% most of the time.
-IE9, ewww. It's unimaginably laggy and browsing with it is nearly impossible on P4 CPU, I scroll down one line, CPU usage shots to 100%, stays 100% for sometime (dunno what the hell does it "process" too much while I scroll) until the line is scrolled!
-Chorme is the best-est browser of all. Fast, fluid and not laggy at all. BUT, all the text appears like $hit, all fuzzy, blurry. Cleartype tunig doesn't help. Text is sharp and of proper contrast on all other browsers except this. This fuzzy, light text is the only reason I need a new browser.

Please suggest a good browser as fast and fluid as Chrome.

 

[nilanko]

Solution, if anybody gets helped: Downgrade to Google Chrome v18.0.1025.142. It was and is awesome. Newer versions doesn't always mean good.

 

[TenPc]

IE8, I'm using it now.
My internet PC is Vista x32.
I've never got any problems, PDF files open in the browser, and apart from some minor lagging, it works faster than IE 9. I only use a gt 8600 video card but with 4gb of ram, it seems to be good enough for me.

I suppose it will depend on your OS, use a browser that is designed for your OS.
Firefox is great with Vista but I don't like the interface. I had it runnig on my Vista laptop but the hdd carked it and so I'm back on this old rig.

 

[nilanko]

IE8, I'm using it now.
My internet PC is Vista x32.
I've never got any problems, PDF files open in the browser, and apart from some minor lagging, it works faster than IE 9. I only use a gt 8600 video card but with 4gb of ram, it seems to be good enough for me.

I suppose it will depend on your OS, use a browser that is designed for your OS.
Firefox is great with Vista but I don't like the interface. I had it runnig on my Vista laptop but the hdd carked it and so I'm back on this old rig.

Vista??! Man are you serious? You use Vista? I can't believe. If that old system can run Vista, then obviously, Windows 7 will be a lot better and make that PC quite useful and faster to use. And over Vista you use that super out dated browser IE8!?! C'mon man, with IE8, you miss half of the internet experience. It doesn't have support for so many things such as CSS3, and a lot more. It's an outdated browser man. It sucks too much. Upgrade to Chrome at least.

 

[TenPc]

IE8, I'm using it now.
My internet PC is Vista x32.
I've never got any problems, PDF files open in the browser, and apart from some minor lagging, it works faster than IE 9. I only use a gt 8600 video card but with 4gb of ram, it seems to be good enough for me.

I suppose it will depend on your OS, use a browser that is designed for your OS.
Firefox is great with Vista but I don't like the interface. I had it runnig on my Vista laptop but the hdd carked it and so I'm back on this old rig.

Vista??! Man are you serious? You use Vista? I can't believe. If that old system can run Vista, then obviously, Windows 7 will be a lot better and make that PC quite useful and faster to use. And over Vista you use that super out dated browser IE8!?! C'mon man, with IE8, you miss half of the internet experience. It doesn't have support for so many things such as CSS3, and a lot more. It's an outdated browser man. It sucks too much. Upgrade to Chrome at least.

Well, I got a win 7 x32 Pc and a Win 7 x64 Pc with all good hardware but IE 9 kept crashing, I couldn't open pdf files in a tab and Youtube was really bad. I installed Google Chrome for the Win 7 x64 and althought the pdf files opened in Chrome browser, the interface of that browser was not to my liking. Also with Chrome browser, somehow my jpg images in Documents folder got associated with that browser so when I viewed an image, thinking that the image viewer would load, Google Chrome tried to load it, couldn't do it, even though it finched about ten times and I found that those flinches had meade 10 copies of the image in the Documents folder,.

With Vista x32, I can watch youtube with no lag, web sites open in tabs with very little problems except for those sites that use css3 (not many of them around these days to care about), and I can play Vista games with nary a problem or care. No problems woth Youtube videos either.

For what I do on the internet is a small thing compared to 99% of the population. I'm basically in forums answering or asking Questions, I don't play web site games, don't play multiplayer, and I only ever downloaded one Steam game which ended with me having to pay over $90 in connection fees.

If people find a browser that works for them then it can only be a good thing (for them). The problem with a high cpu usage is that web sites are using more flash embedded video adverts or animated gifs, and their opening page is almost 2 feet long and not the recommended single page screen size of past years.

 

[nilanko]

Well, IE8's CPU usage is pretty low, I know, quite lower than the crappy IE9, but since it misses out many things (even makes web pages screw up totally sometimes), you should use Chrome/Firefox. You know what, these browsers can even predict and correct wrong HTML codes and display the pages correctly! It's all browsing that matters, not the look of the browser itself, well, no problem, if someone likes using some application and satisfies all his/her needs, then, it's pretty fine!

But just to tell ya, with IE8, pages DO load a lot slower and crappier. Chrome is the fastest of all. Rest, it's completely your choice.

 

[TenPc]

There is no 64 bit version of Firefox anf forefo webmasters have no intention of making their browser 64 bit however, it does Firefox x32 does still work well enough on Windows 7 x64 but I doubt that Windows 8 64 would be so kind.

Chrome is fast but its interface is barebones. probably why it is fast, there aren't all those icons in the toobar to load.

IE10 is now available, I haven't heard about any problems as yet but "early days" ...

Whatever the OP does, make sure you don't use IE9 however I think that IE10 uses IE9 or IE8 protocols particularly if it is the 64 bit version because Windows still uses 32 bit system files and drivers for backward compatibilit of some apps like Office. so you'd need to install E8 or IE9 x32 then instal IE10 64 bit, set your default to IE8 or 9 then use IE10 x64 as your secondary browser.

I don't think there is actually a winning post in sight with any of the browsers but most people are betting for the Google Chrome preference as the odds are only 2 to 1. BUT, Google Chrome does require the ieframe.dll so you can't totally uninstall all references to Internet Explorer, also, you might have to actually install IE8 x32 or 9 x32 and use Google Chrome as your preferred browser, whether it be x32 or x64