Hi. I wasn’t sure where to post this, hopefully this is the right area. In lemmy’s opinion, what’s the best eco/environmentally friendly web browser? Basically low on resources, saves battery, etc. Private and secure is a bonus.
Honestly, I don’t think that browsers themselves make a real impact on the environment.
But if you want to reduce the impact of your browsing:
- browse less (duh)
- always use an ad-blocker (ublock Origin on Firefox is the best adBlocking out there), this reduces how much you’re being pushed to consume and makes advertising companies lose money
I don’t think…
The resources usage?
Yeah, but the battery usage due to the browser causes negligible pollution compared to the construction of the device and the operation of servers.
But I don’t include only electricity and battery pollution.
It is like say that a video game only have impact in that.
A web browser can put a computer into a stress to make you buy new RAM modules (to increase it) or dedicated graphics card in some case.
Sometimes, even change your current hard drive with a SSD.
This can be showed in offices easily where no so much resources are needed at all.
The website you visit have bigger impact than the browser itself.
Website like Facebook use crazy amount of ressources. It use almost a whole thread on my i5-2430M.
A static page will have almost zero impact.
Other have recommended an adblocker I would also disable JavaScript.
To this end, installing tracker and script blockers will significantly reduce your browsing energy consumption. Even better if you outright disable JavaScript for any site that doesn’t need it.
Firefox. You can disable most of its features which connect to something, it’s lightweight, truly Open Source and it has many add-ons to make it more accessible for daily browsing.
I honestly don’t get why it only has a market share of 8% or so. I guess its marketing is just pretty bad…
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Sadly a lot of people out there seem to find ease of use and performance more important than privacy and security.
What is worse is that they take a 50% hit on privacy for a 3% gain of performance and the usability isn’t even any different…
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It’s an article from 2001? :D
Tbh, Firefox is more powerful than chrome
If you read about the company then well… Mozilla foundation and their boss are not amazing, and payed up by google so that’s not ideal. If your own web browser by default uses search engine that promotes products of competitor, and they waste ton of money of some side gigs like AI which for sure doesn’t help. Oh, and also I believe that their ceo, or what is his position called, has one of the highest (or the highest) pay among UK’s non-profits, and it is for sure for some reason going opposite way of precent of users if you thrown that on a chart.
For me it was also wierd that Firefox is so nice and yet few people use it. Then I started reading and understood a bit better :p Since that time I’m looking for libre (but not orthodoxic) web browser for my mobile and pc. Sadly nothing did catch my eye for now.
I think Mozilla does more good than harm, especially when comparing them with any of their competitors.
I guess… but oh, they could be so much more.
You could consider making use of RSS feed readers more or basically anything that supports text-only version really
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every browser less than 60mb uses chrome webview instead their own rendering so not a good idea
Ptobably stuff like lynx, links, w3m. Linx 2 even has a graphical version xlinks2 but it uses comparable amount of ram to firefox.
I would say also internet explorer and winexplorer fall under this category too. But they are discontinued by the industry and winexplorer doesn’t have all the features IE has.
Inb4 free software gang has a problem with me suggesting IE
Lynx has the best resource usage to usability ratio imo. Turning your computer off will have a way bigger impact though.
