I have 4GB of RAM and an Intel Celeron N4000. Chrome and Edge work decently, but they always freeze at the worst possible moments. Firefox, Brave?
Firefox with Ublock Origin is pretty much the gold standard. But, it likely won’t do terribly better. Modern webpages are big.
You need to either Linux to get the OS RAM usage down or get another 4gb in there. Both would help a ton.
If you’re open to putting a new OS on, there’s Linux Lite and it’s quite nice. It comes with Firefox.
Minimum Requirements:
- 1.5 Ghz Dual Core Processor
- 4GB Memory
- 40GB HDD/SSD/NVME
- VGA, DVI, DP or HDMI screen capable of 1366x768 resolution
- DVD drive or USB port for the ISO image
- Disable Secure Boot
100% agree that you’ll have far better performance with a light Linux distro. If you’re having trouble running a browser, that’s 5% of what’s running with some bloated OS chugging along just to show you a desktop.
Waterfox.
I’m not going to sugar coat it but your ask might be a bit hard if you want a relatively clean browsing experience.
You’ll need a browser that can at the very least use addons for ad blocking / script blocking / browser and OS spoofing.
But if you are on Linux then the lowest resource browser will always be via the terminal but then you miss things like layout etc… :)
