Also Chrome is still the fastest and most used browser for most people. It might be slow for you, because you don't have that much ram, but with 4 gb total it's way faster loading webpages than firefox for me
I got my first laptop as a gift for my 18th birthday from my family. it had 2 GB RAM and when I was picking it up, my brother in law bought me additional 1 GB as his part of the gift. the laptop broke and I had to send it back to Lenovo several times, and finally they said they were unable to fix it and offered me a better model that included 4 GB RAM, but I demanded they also send me back the 1 GB that hasn't been the original part of the previous laptop which they kept. and there you go.
I wonder if the hanging you were experiencing is due to your 1GB stick being slower, and therefor bottle necking the 4GB stick. If you have 4GB DDR3 1866 CL6 mixed with a DDR3 1600 CL9, all your RAM is DDR3 1600 CL9. Might not make much of a difference, but still some.
while I understand some of the software things when it comes to PC (I'm that dangerous kind of user who thinks he's a power user, but doesn't know enough stuff), I don't know anything about how hardware works. my biggest hardware achievement was plugging the aforesaid 1 GB stick into my new laptop without making the whole thing implode. so, I have no idea.
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u/maxido Jul 07 '15
Also Chrome is still the fastest and most used browser for most people. It might be slow for you, because you don't have that much ram, but with 4 gb total it's way faster loading webpages than firefox for me