Best Browsers for a Raspberry Pi 3B

Support & Help Requests Raspberry Pi
1

Which browser for Ubuntu MATE is the fastest and the least resource-hogging?
So far, I've tried:

  • Chromium
  • Firefox ESR and Normal Firefox
  • Midori
  • Epiphany

Chromium is a HUGE hogger and hardly works. Firefox ESR is okay but gets slow when it loads GitHub or Canvas. The normal firefox crashes whenever I try to sign in to sync data, which is annoying. Midori and Epiphany aren't very big resource hoggers, but they tend to make the CPU temperature skyrocket of 10+ minutes of use.

Which is my best option? I'm on a Pi 3B with 1GB of RAM and it's hard to do things when browsers freeze up the pi forcing me to unplug, or too slow that makes it overheat easily.

2

Some years ago I used Min (https://minbrowser.org) on my netbook. Very lightweight and fast, but one has to get used to its minimalistic UI. If it works for ARM, it's definitely worth a try.

3

Sadly, it only works for amd64. Is there a build of it for armhf?

EDIT: I found a version for armhf of Min's GitHub for armhf. It works!

4

Try the PaleMoon browser. It has both armhf and arm64 versions.

5

A new browser called Flow is being developed for RasPi:
https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/