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[Dale Snell]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:58:57 -0800
"Eitan Tsur" <eitan.tsur at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm running Ubuntu on a laptop maxed out with 512 MB of RAM.  The
> biggest consumer I have appears to be firefox.  Now the system is
> nicely responsive, just wondering if there are any smaller-footprint
> browsers out there I might be able to try, preferrably with tab
> support.  Any suggestions welcome.

You might try Midori.  It's a nice looking browser, and does do tabs.
I just tried it alongside Firefox, and Midori wins the
low-memory-footprint contest hands down, with Firefox weighing in at
69.4MB and Midori at 22.1MB.  (Measured with the Gnome System Monitor
running on Fedora 10.)

--dale