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George Tsartsianidis, 123RF
Linux offers a surprisingly large number of lean web browsers that can substitute resource-hungry options like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Although austere in appearance, these Linux browsers are nonetheless remarkably convenient to use.
Web browsers like Firefox and Chrome gobble up working memory by the gigabyte. In PCs that have seen better days, there is often not enough space for the extra RAM required to accommodate browsers like these. Luckily, most Linux distributions have a lean web browser application in their package list.
The newer applications such as Qutebrowser [1] are built on the Webkit rendering engine. The same goes for Apple Safari and more recently, Opera. However, even the Webkit engine is not exactly frugal.
Thus, it makes sense to take a look at web browsers that have been in existence for a long time and are less outrageous in their resource demands. These browsers can generally be divided between those having a graphical interface under X and those that are text based. The latter of the two types of browsers run on the console, in a terminal emulator or remotely via SSH. There are exceptions here. Some text-based browsers use Framebuffer to also offer a graphical interface on the console. One such browser can actually handle all three methods.
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