Internet - Web Browsers (20)

In my very unscientific testing, the program starts up quickly and does use radically less memory at than most other browsers (54 megs) but with just a few tabs open it quickly balloons to 120 megs (around the same that most other browsers use).

Still, supports do not track which Chromium has abandoned, looks like it's under active development, and seems pretty solid (doesn't crash). Looks like a strong secondary browser with maybe some hope of pushing into the primary spot down the road.

Been testing it often since my first post as a secondary browser and it looks too unstable (crashing) for any serious use. Will keep testing.

I am following up on my previous post:
- I closed FireFox
- I could delete all the three files
- I restarted FireFox
- FF has recreated the files!

... and now my last test:
When you close FireFox, it does delete the temp folder with its temp files.
Therefore, it can be considered as portable?
I would have expected that the temp files and folder to be created in the install folder!

juvera: this should ideally go into the forums, but yes it's considered portable. Temp file behavior is covered in the FAQ.

@ BGM - portable apps are slow, if run from a CD. Considerably faster if run from a USB stick. For the best performance, copy the executable to hard drive. Stick it into your documents folder or someplace out of the way, and fire it up from there. Your hard drive will almost always be faster than either CD or USB.

one can't avoid, that there's still sites that can only viewed by ie... :-( sad but true

Doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Opera or FF, but it's faster than IE and with better features. A good basic browser that's light on resources.

I just downloaded Maxthon Portable from PortableApps.com. For reference, the uncompressed filesize is 98.6 MB.

@freakazoid I doubt it includes both engines as it will just use the IE engine that is on the Windows you are running it on.

@veekay And? Firefox has had the capability of using Dual engines for a long long time with it's IE Tab add on. From there on you can add whatever features you want.

YouTube downloader worked pretty well, although from the list of avaialble files it doesn't give you much information. Just that it's an FLV file. You then get to guess which one is which. Anyway, it downloaded without any difficulty. Prefer YoutubeDownloader HD, but nice to see this functionality integrated into a browser.