![]() ![]() Okay, sure, there's a version for portable devices, and K-Meleon is a lightweight Mozilla-based Firefox alternative, but it's a bitch for novices to configure and sure as shuttlecock ain't no Firefox. I would suggest that the Mozilla community produce a stripped-down, bare-bones version of Firefox - 'Firefox Lite', if we're going to follow beverage naming conventions. The result? Users probably revert to Internet Explorer 6 (the likely default browser on such systems), which is less demanding on RAM. ![]() Those beautifully useful extensions, the undeniably functional tabs, all too often beat the proverbial faeces out of lesser machines. However, I think that the memory-hogging issue isn't really too serious for slightly-above-average PCs these days - they can handle the memory for the most part. There's no doubt Firefox is the best Web browser in the world. Firefox, while initially a fairly lightweight Web browser, is now in its 2.0.0.5 incarnation and with a few extensions and a few open tabs, sometimes consumes upwards of a quarter of a gigabyte of RAM. While most of today's PCs boast gigabytes of RAM, the lesser technologically able, older machines suffer in quiet dark corners, brutally slave-whipped by modern applications demanding memory units in the thousands. ![]()
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