Literally none without jank. Javascript and HTML5 are monsters and it just isn't possible to get a universally flawless experience without them.
Your best bet is if you're willing to give up a significant amount of fidelity (and images). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
I’ve been testing ungoogled-chromium for a few weeks - pretty happy with it so far!
@colourlessidea how do you get that ? I'm working on seamonkey.
They have a download page linked here: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium although I installed it via homebrew I think
We're no longer just rendering text anymore. It's at the point webpages are basically compiled in real time.
It's no longer possible unless you give up a lot
Lynx
@just_another_person any modern website ? YouTube ? Facebook ? Instagram ?
Amazing. It can ingest ANY website, and flawlessly render all content faster than any other browser converts to text. Built-in Ad and Content Blocking too!
@just_another_person Are you serious ?
No, they're unhelpfully trolling you because they're autistic teenagers.
Lynx is a text-only browser. It's cool but it's not what you asked for.
It renders all the important bits
I assume that's referring to flawlessly as not working, in those cases. Intentionally.
💯 it will render absolutely any site flawlessly, yup.
Whatever's the most debloated version of firefox or chrome.
You will not get all websites on something thats light weight. Web browsers are basically mini operating systems at this point.
If the "literally any modern website" part is a hard requirement, then I would suggest to go for a fork of modern mainstream browsers with strong privacy/adblocking features. The justification for this is that browser engines can only get so light in terms of complexity and still support modern sites, but sites themselves can be made to be less resource demanding on the browser by selectively blocking unwanted elements. Adblocking is the obvious, blocking unwanted JavaScript would likely be the next best bang for the buck, but even clearing the cache after each session can make the browser feel faster if your bottleneck is memory/cpu instead of the network.
as usually you have to go with privacy respecting open source browsers, cause those dont get pointless feature integrations. you havent specified the platform so:
you should also look around on alternativeto.net
A “minimum RAM, maximum screen real estate” browser?
I’ve used many browser forks. But I needed one for that specific constraint, and my search landed me on Zen Browser.
However, keep in mind that extensions are heavy. If you need (for example) adblocking, then a browser integrating an Adblock engine natively is best.
😂
I wish this existed :'(
It used to be opera. These days though, pretty much every browser is based on chrome, chromium or Firefox. To support modern websites as you specified is very complex, especially when taking into account security and performance. I don’t know of any lesser known browser engines if you expect to render common websites and support video, sound, animations and so on.
Pale Moon Portable
give it a shot , its opensource and very light weight
...just make sure op is at least 30, so can handle a 15 year old firefox ui and featureset and lacking extensionsupport
UI is old yes , lacking extension support ? no , not at all Pale Moon can handle all of firefox's extensions just fine , also its UI is simple and comfier than most of todays good looking colored bs UI's that u need to look ages for a simple feature !
I'm 28 by the way
Well, lightness has to come from somewhere...
For what platform?
Realistically speaking, the most lightweight browser capable of using modern websites and not just being reskinned Firefox or some Chromium-based browser is Luakit.
It uses Webkit for rendering and Lua for configuration – but be aware, the configuration is absurdly overcomplicated and complex and extremely poor documented.
Even Chromium browsers, which is unfortunately the standard most websites are built around, don't support everything that well. Can't be done.
There is a Waterfox Portable, but lately I haven't been able to get it to use Video Calls on things such as Discord or Zoom (it worked in the past, might be a current update issue).
I’m guessing you’re looking for librewolf or waterfox, though I doubt they are strictly lightweight or can browse literally any modern website.
I've used librewolf daily for at least 3 years, and it can browse figuratively any modern website.
I would say figuratively any. There are a few websites that build on Chrome-specific web features, but it's not prohibitively many.
I can confirm that the car building website thing for ordering a new BMW doesn't work with Librewolf.
Anyway, I didn't buy a BMW.
Personally, I prefer browsers that by default disable most of the stuff on modern websites unless I explicitly enable it.
It’s been over a decade since I’ve visited a public website that ran exactly the way the owner planned on my browser — but that’s a good thing. I browse for the most part without ads or scripts or tracking. It’s fast, reasonably secure, and when a page fails to load what I’m expecting, I have to make the decision on whether it’s worth lowering my privacy, security and resource posture to make it work.
One solution that works pretty well is to use a web gateway that takes any website and makes it mostly functional on any browser back to the original Netscape Communicator and NCSA Mosaic. That way, you can use a very lightweight browser and let a server somewhere do the heavy lifting.
I've been testing DDG browser on Android for a couple of days. Seems to block ads and popups well. Has a built in youtube player which will be handy the next time youtube blocks the frontend. AI can be disabled.
literally any
chrome.
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