Which is the best Internet Browser?

[simonnatur]

I was getting fed up with Chrome which was bringing my laptop to a standstill - does anyone else have problems with it?

I typically have about 25 tabs open at once and have switched to Opera (only last 2 days) since when everything is working perfectly.

Would recommend it based on my experience so far and it's free.

http://www.opera.com

[mikeymike]

just as a matter of interest - how old is your laptop - my laptop is four years old and every time i open chrome it takes a while - though once its up its fine

[DMorgan]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/great-suspender-chrome-extension-puts-tabs-to-sleep-to-speed-up-your-computer-10260240.html

25 tabs is an insane amount though!

[arbboy]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/great-suspender-chrome-extension-puts-tabs-to-sleep-to-speed-up-your-computer-10260240.html

25 tabs is an insane amount though!

Is this free to install?  I use Chrome and it has been really slow recently especially on betfair.  Any chance of a link that i can just click 'download' on to make it simple for me so i don't fuck it up!

[mulhuzz]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/great-suspender-chrome-extension-puts-tabs-to-sleep-to-speed-up-your-computer-10260240.html

25 tabs is an insane amount though!

Is this free to install?  I use Chrome and it has been really slow recently especially on betfair.  Any chance of a link that i can just click 'download' on to make it simple for me so i don't fuck it up!

looks free to me mind. but remember it actually 'kills' the tab, so you need to reload the page (more or less) when you want to use again

[arbboy]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/great-suspender-chrome-extension-puts-tabs-to-sleep-to-speed-up-your-computer-10260240.html

25 tabs is an insane amount though!

Is this free to install?  I use Chrome and it has been really slow recently especially on betfair.  Any chance of a link that i can just click 'download' on to make it simple for me so i don't fuck it up!

looks free to me mind. but remember it actually 'kills' the tab, so you need to reload the page (more or less) when you want to use again

oh right fuck that.  Can't be doing that every 5 mins.  Will take longer than the speed gain i would imagine.

[DMorgan]

You can whitelist certain sites so that it never kills pages that refresh themselves like Betfair. It'll kill (ie stop letting them use processing power) blonde pages that you've need to refresh anyway to see new posts.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/kill%20tab?hl=en

Third one on the list, The Great Suspender

[tikay]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/great-suspender-chrome-extension-puts-tabs-to-sleep-to-speed-up-your-computer-10260240.html

25 tabs is an insane amount though!

How many, roughly, do most people have open?

On my Laptop, I tend to have 10 or 12 most of the time.

On my I-pad, I currently have 27 open, which is about my normal amount & it does not seem to affect performance at all. If I use a site regularly, it saves me opening it every time.

Now tell me I'm doing it all wrong.....

I might just start a Thread "which tabs do you have open regularly?" & ask people to list them. Nobody, nobody, could ever guess most of mine. And no, there's no mucky sites.

[simonnatur]

just as a matter of interest - how old is your laptop - my laptop is four years old and every time i open chrome it takes a while - though once its up its fine

It's probably 3-4 yrs old core I3 processor.

Everything still working fine now I've switched to Opera.

Could be worth giving it a go Arbboy, if you're having issues with Chrome. I suspect my issues were connected to flash player hogging memory.

I discovered after I laboriously copied all my settings over, that Opera has the facility to import all your existing settings and bookmarks from other browsers.

FWIW here are the pages I have open:

http://www.oddschecker.com/horse-racing/york/16:20/winner
https://www.timeform.com/racing/
http://www.attheraces.com/article.aspx?hlid=547590&lid=nav+-+tips+and+analysis&raceid=&title=Hugh+Taylor&ref=Nav+-+Tips+and+Analysis&nav=tips&sub=&day=
http://www.attheraces.com/article.aspx?hlid=253344&lid=nav+-+default+sub&raceid=&title=Speed+Ratings+-+Wednesday&ref=Nav+-+Default+Sub&nav=home&sub=Speed+Ratings&day=
https://www.flatstats.co.uk/horse-racing-systems.php
https://www.flatstats.co.uk/turf-sire-
http://www.drawbias.com/|http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_new_home
http://sports.coral.co.uk/
http://sports.williamhill.com/bet/en-gb
http://www.stanjames.com/UK/802/homepage
http://www.betfred.com/#
http://www.bet365.com/home/FlashGen4/WebConsoleApp.asp?cb=1058020279502511025
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?board=11.0
http://mesgmy.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewMyMessages&_trksid=p2060353.m2034.l3912&CurrentPage=MyeBayMyMessages&ssPageName=STRK:ME:LNLK:None&FClassic=true#d1
https://twitter.com/?lang=en
http://www.betdaqtips.com/2015/05/12/daqman-tues-derby-trials-verdict/
http://racecaller.com/horse-racing-forum/index.php

[arbboy]

My daily standard working tabs in order left to right are blonde, oddschecker, betfair, racingpost , gbgb ( dog results page), racingpost greyhound TV stream (during the evening) another betfair tab for non dog stuff, espn, telegraph, bbc and a pop up dog commentary stream from stan James which isn't a tab.  I don't think I should be struggling with speed with that minimal use on a beast of an Alienware laptop surely?  The only other thing which is open is skype usually and an excel spreadsheet.

[Graham C]

Chrome no longer supports Silverlight which is a PITA as Sky Go uses it.

[tikay]

Chrome no longer supports Silverlight which is a PITA as Sky Go uses it.

What is "Silverlight", & do I need it?

I keep getting a message at the bottom of my screen (on some sites), "Silverlight is out of date" or somesuch.

I never knew I had it in the first place.

Should add, my Laptop is fearfully slow, it barely runs a You Tube Video without 10 minutes to buffer, & to close it down takes at least 8 minutes. It is a Company Issue HP "Elite Book". Not sure, but probably 5 or 6 years old.

[arbboy]

Chrome no longer supports Silverlight which is a PITA as Sky Go uses it.

I noticed this when i used skygo recently.  You just have to right click and it works.  I have no idea what it is/means.

[booder]

Should add, my Laptop is fearfully slow, it barely runs a You Tube Video without 10 minutes to buffer, & to close it down takes at least 8 minutes. It is a Company Issue HP "Elite Book". Not sure, but probably 5 or 6 years old.

Get Maria to get rid of all the crap from it.(If she is still your go to girl for technical stuff)

[DMorgan]

I've been using it for a couple of days on a laptop that is a couple of years old and a bit slow and it definitely improved the speed of Chrome.

As for the number of tabs you should be having open it really depends on your computer spec. Most laptops over a couple of years old I'd expect to struggle once you start getting towards 15, 20 tabs open at the same time. iPads and other Apple stuff it probably doesn't make a difference as they have a different processing structure to PCs.

I guess theres no reason why anyone that isn't into the technical side would give a second thought to how many tabs they 'should' be using, but just to illustrate if you go to Start and search for Task Manager, you'll see in the Processes tab of that window that there will be a TON of instances of Google Chrome on the list, all using processing power.

Reducing the number of tabs that you have open will almost certainly improve your laptops performance speed Tony