All of these recommendations for Falkon, Palemoon, Seamonkey. Honestly? None of these really make a difference to me, and Falkon actually runs like shit while not really reducing resource use!
Librewolf genuinely runs perfectly for me while taking up slightly (like 10%) more ram and vastly less cpu time. And it being a fork of Firefox, I can easily use all the addons I need (or can afford) to browse the web.
With Falkon stuff barely worked, was slow, and features were missing. With Librewolf, h264ify and a Youtube video as an embed within a tab. I can watch 720p/30fps video without issue. It baffles me on why this concept even exists, when the problem that is the modern web creates is that you really can’t make a new, much less lightweight, browser or engine.
And I don’t particularly care for Ladybird.
Okay but what shitbox are you running?
Thank you for asking imaginary poster in my head. Intel Atom N2600 with 1GB of DDR3 ram. It sucks. And it is testament to me just how nonsensical lightweight web browsers are, I’m sure that it’s Antix that is making it all work. Also I wrote this post on this shitty netbook and it’s weirdly smooth happily enough.
So it’s pretty much impossible to trim the web down to a reasonable feature set, because the entire history of browser technologies is someone releasing a poorly designed API that’s missing something important, then a later standard releasing a new layer of APIs that solve that hole in the design by being more powerful and flexible, but that one’s also poorly designed and missing something important, repeat process 100 times. Each layer is more powerful than the last, which isn’t what you want with a lighter browser, but then you go to the bottom of it and you can’t have a three-column layout.
I could imagine creating a nice standard that replaces it from a clean slate, though.
You could also make a javascript library that renders the whole new standard, and just package your websites in that, though. That’s awful, but the modern web is a nightmare, so similarly gross systems happen all the time, and it’s not really worse than the status quo.
And then you could make a browser that, when it sees a page using that library, ignores it end renders the clean slate standard natively. Or, for the more ideologically motivated, only renders that sort of page.
But as fun of a technical challenge as that is, it’s really a social challenge to get enough people using this weird new thing.