As the name indicates, Slimjet focuses on speed and is slimmer (lightweight). It provides added functionalities on the top of the Chromium browser. Read this article if you want to know open source alternative web browsers to Google Chrome.
Comes with a download manager that helps in resumable download between sessions.A built-in photo app for easier upload and enhancement (apply effects, frames etc).Instant photo upload with built-in compression.Flexible web page translation (translate entire or part of web page).Looking at the list above you can see that most of the features can be achieved in any standard web browser by installing plugins and tweaking settings but having it by default is an advantage in itself. For beginners and for people who do not like to tinker a lot, this could be quite helpful. Slimjet is available for Linux and Windows.
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Surprisingly, it’s not available for Mac OS X. For Debian and Ubuntu based Linux distributions, Slimjet provides the.
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You can download the respective installer from the link below: deb executables while other Linux distributions such as Fedora, openSUSE etc have the option to install it by running a script. If you are using Ubuntu, Linux Mint, elementary OS or Linux Lite, just double click on the. I have tested Slimjet in Linux Mint 17.3 64bit. When you first run Slimjet, it immediately gives you the option to install ad-blocker.Ĭhoice is yours whether to enable ad-blocker or not. Sensible thing would be to install it unless you have a favorite ad blocking plugin that you would use instead.
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The next thing you notice on the tab is that it is full of advertising websites like eBay, Groupon etc like you might have seen in Firefox on the first run. But these websites are also added in the list of bookmarks by default and that’s most annoying thing. You have the option to sign into Slimjet which is basically using your Google account. This will automatically sync settings, bookmarks, browsing history from your Google Chrome to Slimjet, given that you use sync option in Chrome. Your passwords won’t be imported automatically, though. Importing passwords between browsers have become increasingly difficult because the way Google is storing password these days. Is it really slim and fast?Īll kind of claims are made by products, and digital products i.e.Įven using a third party app like LastPass did not help me. Slimjet pitches itself as the faster alternative to the existing web browsers. The figures kept jiggling between the various browsers: To test that, I opened four websites in Google Chrome, Chromium and Slimjet and I found that all of them consume more or less same amount of resources. I did not do extensive testing though so I cannot make claims if it is really faster than the others or not.
It’s a neat little browser that has all the functionalities you are accustomed to in any standard web browser such as Google Chrome.
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