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I would think that whatever browser you use would, presumably, make little difference to how much data a website tries to send you? It would only change whatβs displayed. (But happy to be corrected on that by someone more knowledgeable.)
If your connection really is limited to such a slow speed, you might need to find a proxy server that strips out as much as possible before it reaches you.
The rendering speed difference is negligible, with a bandwidth this limited the only strategy is to limit what the browser fetches. You don't need a proxy server to strip out page content (also because that would imply breaking the encryption stream), a browser could simply choose not to fetch any image or multimedia resources, override remote fonts with local ones, etc. In that sense the choice matters, because some are specialized for this purpose or can be configured to act in these manners
Is there ways to do it on firefox, i remember opera had this gimmick.
Well, the browser could choose not to download the images, videos and styling information. Trouble is that many modern sites load their content through JavaScript programs that can be comparatively massive.
But I guess losing those sites would be a small price to pay for OP.
Just loading the text should be really small, especially when it is compressed, which should be the standard nowadays.