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Are you the type of person who needs the most amount of space possible for web pages but still have complete functionality like with chrome? Or because it's a NETbook you night need tons of addons so you go with firefox? What's your opinion and which do you prefer for use on a typical 10.1 or 11.6" netbook? |
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This is not on an netbook, but on my Macbook pro 13" and I can tell you that your browser choice will determine your battery time... These are the figures for my setup whilst out and about whihc is usually on the train an hour at a time: MBP 13" April 2010 model with a 2,4ghz C2D processor, 4gb of ram and a 320gb HDD iPhone 3GS via the danish mobile phone operator Telia The sound on the MBP is Muted and the brightness where possible is on 4 out of 16 The MBP gets its internet via the iPhone 3GS's Internet Tethering option: they communicate via bluetooth. Here are the averages I get with the different browsers with general surfing from a fully charged battery: Safari 5.0.1 = 8 hours of battery life Chrome 5.0.375.175 = around 4 and a half hours of battery life Firefox around 4 and a half hours of battery life. All the browsers have no plugins, with the exception of FF which has a spellchecker installed there was a maximum of 1 tab open at a time... sites like youtube gave less battery time, but thats to be expected... I found it interesting that Safari was over double the battery life for me, which of course means I have switched to Safari for browsing out and about. So this is all on Mac OSX, but I can imagine that there is also a browser on Windows that gives better battery life... Especially on netbooks... As for which size netbook, I would say DON'T at all, I bought a Lenovo netbook about 6 months before I got this MBP and I was hugely disappointed, it was slow, and even upgrading the ram to 2gb did not help at all. It was used just for surfing, but it could barely handle that, so I ordered an MBP instead... The sluggishness is something I have experianced on all netbooks I have used to try them out... Thats down to the Atom processor I guess aswell as the cheap components. However if you really do want an netbook then buy something in the 11,6" range if its not too big for what you want it to do.. |
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Most definitely Chrome is the best in my opinion. I use it for all my browsing needs. |
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This is not on an netbook, but on my Macbook pro 13" and I can tell you that your browser choice will determine your battery time... These are the figures for my setup whilst out and about whihc is usually on the train an hour at a time: MBP 13" April 2010 model with a 2,4ghz C2D processor, 4gb of ram and a 320gb HDD iPhone 3GS via the danish mobile phone operator Telia The sound on the MBP is Muted and the brightness where possible is on 4 out of 16 The MBP gets its internet via the iPhone 3GS's Internet Tethering option: they communicate via bluetooth. Here are the averages I get with the different browsers with general surfing from a fully charged battery: Safari 5.0.1 = 8 hours of battery life Chrome 5.0.375.175 = around 4 and a half hours of battery life Firefox around 4 and a half hours of battery life. All the browsers have no plugins, with the exception of FF which has a spellchecker installed there was a maximum of 1 tab open at a time... sites like youtube gave less battery time, but thats to be expected... I found it interesting that Safari was over double the battery life for me, which of course means I have switched to Safari for browsing out and about. So this is all on Mac OSX, but I can imagine that there is also a browser on Windows that gives better battery life... Especially on netbooks... As for which size netbook, I would say DON'T at all, I bought a Lenovo netbook about 6 months before I got this MBP and I was hugely disappointed, it was slow, and even upgrading the ram to 2gb did not help at all. It was used just for surfing, but it could barely handle that, so I ordered an MBP instead... The sluggishness is something I have experianced on all netbooks I have used to try them out... Thats down to the Atom processor I guess aswell as the cheap components. However if you really do want an netbook then buy something in the 11,6" range if its not too big for what you want it to do.. |
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some kind of web kit browser. NO IE. fire fox ok but, not recommended. |
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Opera is great for lightweight, slower computers. IE 8 on Windows 7 functions but isn't that great... Firefox is a bit clunky. Google Chrome is pretty fast but sometimes has unique issues, Safari is clean and fast- but not so much the Windows version. It's more about what works best for you- what sites you visit, what your internet speed is, and so forth. |
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Hello, I have just bought a Samsung i40plus netbook and was having issues with IE and Firefox at the same time as they were taking ages to load up and making my processor really slow. Switched over to chrome and should say I am pretty impressed. My netbook has got quite nimble and quick but it seems like it does take a lot of battery. But other than that no complaints and the installation is a breeze. So I would recommend Google Chrome all the way. Jiril |
