Browser recommendation??

Anyone have any recommendations of an internet browser worth looking at? I currently have IE and Firefox, but am having issues with both.

IE I tend to have on all day to listen to BBC radio shows; FF is for browsing, videos, etc. But in the last couple of weeks Firefox has been getting really bloated and unresponsive – a rollback to v38.8esr helped somewhat. And IE no longer consistently works on the BBC radio pages.

Sooo… which lighter-weight, stable, non-resource-hog browser for running BBC radio through all day?

Chrome

I used to be a big Firefox fan but imho its been overtaken by Chrome. I never liked IE and hardoy ever use it even under Windows. With my gmail logib I can sgare Chrome info across Windows and Mac machines too

Used to use Opera mainly, but switched to Chrome for the last few years.

Keep firefox for watching NowTV – it’s still using Microsoft Silverlight, and all the browsers bar Firefox no longer support the plug in.

Oooh, good point, I’ll try Chrome. Cheers

Chrome

I used to be a big Firefox fan but imho its been overtaken by Chrome.

Ditto.

OK, so I’ve tried Chrome, and it’s certainly better than IE or Chrome this afternoon. But after 2 hours of listening to Nemone, it’s at 500MB of memory, and slowing everything else down.

Any other suggestions or recommendations?

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And if that’s too much, there’s always:

$ telnet 'singletrackworld.com' 80
GET /forum/ HTTP/1.1
Host: "singletrackworld.com"

Chrome this afternoon. But after 2 hours of listening to Nemone, it’s at 500MB of memory,

That sounds like a memory leak ? Not a windows expert however but surely usage should be pretty statis

That sounds like a memory leak ? Not a windows expert however but surely usage should be pretty statis

Yes!
Firefox does it constantly, I can just see it ticking up over time.

Chrome seems to exhibit weird behaviour on the BBC pages; it may be something to do with their HTML 5 beta thingy. It’ll be OK, then suddenly spike to 800MB in a couple of seconds.

So, er, yeah. Not found a solution

I’ve been finding Chrome a bit sluggish of late so Edge tends to be my go to browser for most stuff. Still use Chrome/Opera/IE as well though

Inter-lesting … will try streaming on Safari / Mac just as an experiment tomorrow. If all the browsers do it it would suggest its a BBC or Windows problem

Any other suggestions or recommendations?

500Mb is a problem? Buy more RAM.

That sounds like a memory leak ? Not a windows expert however but surely usage should be pretty statis

Memory is there to be used. If it’s empty it’s wasted.

If you suddenly need more memory does that browser usage get dumped? That’s the difference between a memory leak and “hey, free memory!”

I’ve switched Chrome over to using Flash rather than the HTML5 streams on bbc.co.uk, and it’s looking pretty steady at about 125MB of RAM.

And yes, 500MB seems to be a challenge when running various work things as well. Now I just have to worry about stw ads slowing everything down, but that’s a whole different discussion…

Buy more RAM.

(And a Premier subscription…)

Firefox.

Refresh Firefox