Portable SeaMonkey

If you enjoy using Firefox, but are not too pleased with the amount of resources it consumes, then you should know there are plenty of alternatives out there. Perhaps one of the most-known open-source alternatives is Portable SeaMonkey, an overall decent all-in-one internet suite for your browsing experience.

Since this is a portable suite, you can simply decompress the archive and you are ready to send emails, chat or browse the web. The first thing that you are likely to notice is that the GUI is not as polished as most modern browsers out there. Nevertheless, the tool compensates with the other functions, but more on that later.

As far as its browser functions are concerned, the program comes with the standard features you would expect in a modern web navigation tool. You can clear cache and history, have pop-up blockers, enjoy tabbed browsing or an integrated search engine. However, users have complained about the sporadic releases and the lack of add-on support. In the case of the latter, the options are rather limited and the developers usually consider extending the support if enough users need or use it.

A noteworthy feature of the tool is that it can be a replacement for several other tools. In case you are the kind of person who dislikes having numerous apps to perform simple functions, then this all-in-one suite might be an alternative. Moreover, if you are regularly using Thunderbird, then you can just import everything from there and skip the configuration altogether.

Other noteworthy functions that the tool packs include support for multiple accounts, address book, HTML message support, Chatzilla IRC chat, web development tools, junk mail control, blogs and news feeds, and so on and so forth.

In the eventuality that you enjoy using Firefox, yet your current computer cannot handle the relatively high resource demands of modern browsers, then perhaps you can consider giving Portable SeaMonkey a try.