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Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser?
Annirak writes "I've recently started a paid internship at a company which is expanding faster than their IT department can supply new hardware. As a consequence, I've been issued a P4 2.4GHz with 512MB of RAM. Currently, I am using Firefox 4, but I find that it eats up far too much of my limited RAM. I'd rather not give up some of the more modern UI features that are offered by the current versions of Firefox and Chrome, but I need a smaller footprint. What other browsers are out there which could help me conserve resources?"
Yes, that stick of RAM can fuck up the computer that the IT department will then have to fix or replace. In car analogy terms: you wouldn't bolt on a turbo kit on a company car just because you thought it wasn't fast enough, would you?
Of course that's not as bad as running a rouge server like that guy in the hospital, but it's also not as bad as Hitler, so I'm not sure what's the point of making such comparisons.
I like my rouge server, but not as much as my teal one.
Only whore servers wear so much rouge. Teach your server some proportion.
Nah, that's corporate speak for "Interns? They don't need a laptop to make coffee! Just dig up something from storage and let 'em play with that."
... or install Windows 98 and use IE6 SP1
Once the precedent is set, then you have opened up a can of worms where every intern (and other person in the establishment) thinks it's okay to change out system parts to suit their fancy. Bob changes out his video card, Sue adds a blue-ray burner, and Elmo decides that he prefers to use Open Office and Firefox, because if they can change the hardware (and drivers), then why can't he change software?
Don't forget bringing in a copy of Creative Suite 5 that he got from his uncle that bought it in a market in China on vacation last year...
And if just slipping in a a stick is OK, can I borrow your wife? It's not like it will break her or anything...
You put rouge on your computer???
I love my computer, but it's beautiful without makeup.