How do I setup my web browser to default to alternate port for web development

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2014-07
  • Jamil

    I would like to setup a development copy of my site on another port in order to develop it in exactly the same conditions. Is there a way to setup my browser or is there a browser capable of defaulting to another port? I'm thinking I can perhaps at least use qt's browser extension and parse the URLs, but I was wondering if there was a simpler way.

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  • Jason S

    Any advice for a memory-efficient web-browser that runs under Windows XP? (And by memory-efficient, I mean one that uses the least physical memory. I'm running into limitations on my PC.)

    Or are there ways to tweak settings on web browsers so they are more memory-efficient?

    Opera seems pretty good, at least a lot better than Firefox or Safari.

    edit: (just as a note, my particular application for this, is that I am trying to use a web application at the same time both as a user and as an admin. I can't login with both logins at the same time on the same browser because they use session cookies that clobber each other. So I'm looking for a lightweight browser to run the admin functions that come up occasionally while I am doing mostly user work.)


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  • brandstaetter

    Opera sounds very reasonable to me too. There are some tweaks and performance hints available on this wiki page too.

    See also this (old) comparison. Every addon and plugin needs memory, so if you get rid of flash, you can save much.

  • th3dude

    Try Google Chrome. It seems to be very lightweight and minimalistic.

  • Chris_K

    Not scientific (/hat tip to Randolph's comment) but I'm having great luck with Google's Chrome on an old Pentium 2 ThinkPad with 288 MB RAM running XP.

    My second favorite is K-Meleon which is perhaps more light-weight, but not as fast with the JavaScript stuff which is where Chrome really shines on this old rig.

  • Bonus

    Arora could be worth a look as it is designed to be lightweight. It's a webkit-based browser, so speedy at JavaScript work. Recently updated to include flashblock-a-like functionality out of the box.

  • Wim ten Brink

    I've never tried it, but maybe Lynx is a good alternative. The Lynx browser is basically a text-only browser so you can forget about flashy webpages and perhaps even visiting SO/SU/SF with it, but it's extremely lightweight, open-source and very geeky. :-) And because it won't display graphics, but just text, it also has a very small memory footprint.

    However, I can't imagine there's still much interest in a text-only webbrowser these days...

  • Hugh Allen

    You could try an old version of Opera, and turn off images, plugins, javascript etc (unless you need them).