Onitor

With many of our activities revolving around the use of online services, most of the popular web browsers such as Firefox and its Chromium-based counterparts have been adding support for an increasingly wider variety of features to augment the user experience and remove the need for external software, ranging from support for reading PDF files to full-blown operating systems the likes of Chrome OS.

As a result, these mainstream internet navigators tend to take up considerable amounts of system resources that can bog down your device’s performance, which is where alternatives such as Onitor come into play.

As soon as the security certificate and appropriate dependencies for the operating system’s architecture are implemented, users can easily sideload the app on their device, which boots to a rather straightforward interface following Microsoft’s recent iterations of the Fluent Design language that makes for an elegant layout able to blend in with the rest of the operating system’s native programs.

While quintessential features such as support for multiple tabs, customizable webpage zoom and bookmarks are present, the application’s early development stages can be felt through the lack of element inspection tools, right-click context menu and broken multi-window support, which may hinder many users’ workflows.

However, the program’s lightweight memory footprint and compatibility with x86, x64 and ARM processor architectures make it a solid alternative to its mainstream complex counterparts when it comes to devices with lower performance, such as IoT, older tablet hybrids or netbooks repurposed for running media servers, for instance.

Whether you are looking for an accessible, yet lightweight browser for a low-powered device for the occasional quick file download, or you want to access the internet on older netbooks with severely limited non-removable RAM, Onitor may be a good alternative to the current selection of popular web browsers.