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| 1217753 | 2011-07-19 11:08:00 | I intend buying a low-end netbook (Win7 Starter, 1GB, dual-core Intel N570) for travel. Given the machine's limited resources & my undemanding useage, what do the wise heads suggest as the most suitable browser and internet security softwares? Many thanks. | dentate (12653) | ||
| 1217754 | 2011-07-19 11:08:00 | Microsoft Security Essentials would be the way to go for antivirus :thumbs: | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1217755 | 2011-07-19 11:17:00 | Yea just mse and any browser you want really. I would choose firefox/chrome but it's up to you. :pf1mobmini: |
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| 1217756 | 2011-07-19 11:31:00 | Microsoft Security Essentials would be the way to go for antivirus :thumbs: Yeah, apparently MSSE is good. I would choose firefox/chrome but it's up to you. personally I would choose Chrome but Firefox is good as well :thumbs: |
bot (15449) | ||
| 1217757 | 2011-07-19 12:58:00 | Note that Chrome is somewhat ram-hungry. :pf1mobmini: |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1217758 | 2011-07-19 13:25:00 | maybe opera? | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1217759 | 2011-07-19 21:08:00 | I use FF on mine it runs nicely | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1217760 | 2011-07-19 21:30:00 | Note that Chrome is somewhat ram-hungry. :pf1mobmini: My FF5 session is currently hogging 334MB of RAM with 3-4 tabs open. Maybe FF is being lazy with freeing RAM as this PC has 3GB & only about half is in use? I don't use Chrome that often, but I'd be gobsmacked if it was any worse than that! |
MushHead (10626) | ||
| 1217761 | 2011-07-19 22:31:00 | My FF5 session is currently hogging 334MB of RAM with 3-4 tabs open. Maybe FF is being lazy with freeing RAM as this PC has 3GB & only about half is in use? Firefox is known to use memory somewhat inefficiently; Mozilla currently has an entire team of developers assigned to do nothing but fix that. I don't use Chrome that often, but I'd be gobsmacked if it was any worse than that!Prepare to be gobsmacked then - Chrome's memory use is generally higher, largely due to its multi-process architecture. Note that memory usage is somewhat hard to measure for Chrome due to the way it's designed. :pf1mobmini: |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1217762 | 2011-07-19 23:37:00 | Prepare to be gobsmacked then - Chrome's memory use is generally higher, largely due to its multi-process architecture. Note that memory usage is somewhat hard to measure for Chrome due to the way it's designed. Really? I thought it was the opposite. |
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