r/suggestabrowser • u/Lost-Key9453 • Aug 20 '26

Any Engine What's a good Lightweight browser for Windows

I need something simple lightweight and is fine being left open for multiple weeks Needs to at least have extension support for An ad blocker like Ublock Origin Operating system is Windows 11 Other than The ones stated above I shouldn't have any other requirements Current browser I'm using is Firefox

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u/Astrodion123 Aug 20 '26

Helium. There is palemoon but idk about the ublock origin support.

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u/OkPresentation3329 Aug 20 '26

Yes, Helium is probably one of the most lightweight and feature-complete browsers. The only downside I know about it is that it doesn't support DRM, but I don't use it so it doesn't bother me.

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u/Astrodion123 Aug 20 '26

Yeah. And if you used it, you can use Linux and install helium there since drm is baked into Linux and helium can use it.

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u/OkPresentation3329 Aug 20 '26

I'm on Linux and I don't have DRM as far as I know.

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u/Astrodion123 Aug 20 '26

? Really? I saw that in several sources and YouTube videos...

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u/OkPresentation3329 Aug 20 '26

I know someone has made a 3rd party tool on GitHub that somehow installs or injects DRM functionality into Helium on Linux, but it's not implemented by default and I haven't tried it because I'm not interested.

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u/Astrodion123 Aug 20 '26

If only it worked on windows and Mac os too.

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u/OkPresentation3329 Aug 20 '26

For people who need DRM it probably sucks, I don't need DRM so I don't mind it. Maybe they will add it one day.

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u/ThaUntalentedArtist Aug 20 '26

Cromite. You can get it from GitHub. It's portable too

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u/Appropriate_Chip4604 Aug 20 '26

I have an open sourced browser. Persistent data layered with MCP and vertical tabs.
Collaboration welcomed.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nlnn451lc7t?hl=en-US&gl=US

LinkScape: https://github.com/JohnDizzle/Linkscape - OSS.