Saturday, June 20, 2015

[Updated] SlimBrowser - Slim and Fast

[Updated on 29-Jun-15]: This uses IE rendering engine and is sometimes fast and sometimes slow. Hence, i have uninstalled it. I have IE9 and hence this behaves like IE9 but not a consistent performer especially with script intensive sites like eCommerce e.g. shopclues.com, flipkart.com, paytm.com snapdeal.com, infibeam.com etc


I use my office laptop at home and my Organization doesn't allow us installing any browser other than IE. I am stuck in IE 9 which is pathetic on new age ecommerce sites.

So, I was looking for a small browser which can be installed and and unistalled easily. I came across SlimBrowser (v7) which is just 3+ mb in size. http://www.slimbrowser.net/en/
It got
  • installed fast
  • No bundled software
  • browsing is blazing fast
  • Automatically imported all my IE9 favorites into it
  • Integration with Facebook - sharing status, current page and selected text,
  • Reviews were also good
  • Shrinking images during uploads etc (infact you have choice of multiple sizes)

It got good features like IE9 mode, download mgr, ad blocker, popup blocker, privacy, backup and restore etc. So far it looks good, lets see how it fares in the long term :)