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Originally Posted by theevilslave
People have the misconception that Chrome is a light browser. The answer is yes.. and no. It depends what you're running. 1 tab with a news site on = minimal memory usage, but more tabs and flash is when it gets really heavy. It's because chrome puts each tab as a separate process as if to recover them better if they crash.
As for lightweight browser, you can try Pale Moon. Not sure how dev has been, but when I used it on my older desktop it was really good. It's a streamlined version of Firefox basically.
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Chrome is faster, in the sense that, pages load faster than Firefox, as it was designed to utilize more RAM for instant memory access and storage, so for older systems, it's better to use Firefox (as Firefox caches more of it's data to the HD). It sounds like OP is using a very old laptop, in which case, he will benefit more from NOT running Windows and use Linux instead (such as KDE or XFCE).
If he wants to stick with Windows, then it's better that he use a light weight browser. I'm running Midori with Linux Mint 14 XFCE on a netbook, and it's flawless thus far.