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Hey guys, I was wondering what browser would be good to use while gaming. I sometimes like to listen to Pandora while gaming, but Chrome uses so many resources. What's a good browser that has low resource draw, and is secure?

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Opera is pretty slim compared to Firefox and Chrome...

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Opera is good, Maxthon basically would be chrome, but they decided they wanted to remain quick and not OC your CPU. They also have a beta browser called MX Nitro which is basically a no extra feature browser that kicks all the ass in speed. But it is still a beta, so there are bugs. Also, being not very popular browsers, add ons aer slim unless you happen to use Mac OSX or Linux

 

 

EDIT: Quick test. LTT took 10 seconds to load in Chrome, 3 in Maxthon

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Opera is good, Maxthon basically would be chrome, but they decided they wanted to remain quick and not OC your CPU. They also have a beta browser called MX Nitro which is basically a no extra feature browser that kicks all the ass in speed. But it is still a beta, so there are bugs. Also, being not very popular browsers, add ons aer slim unless you happen to use Mac OSX or Linux

 

 

EDIT: Quick test. LTT took 10 seconds to load in Chrome, 3 in Maxthon

takes me 1 second... Do you have every extension ever anabled in chrome? xD

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takes me 1 second... Do you have every extension ever anabled in chrome? xD

Mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybe. Or it might just be that chrome doesn't ever really like killing it's own processes so there's six million, so if you use it for like a day on a laptop it just slows down

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takes me 1 second... Do you have every extension ever anabled in chrome? xD

Takes me 2 seconds but I use Hola (VPN) with LTT.


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Mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybe. Or it might just be that chrome doesn't ever really like killing it's own processes so there's six million, so if you use it for like a day on a laptop it just slows down

are you using the 64bit version? That happened to me, had to go back to 32bit

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Wait for it....

Internet Explorer 10/11

 

or http://midori-browser.org/download/

 

 

 

 

Opera is basically Chrome unless you're using the older Presto version.

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