RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917
I have to admit, the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal. I don't have that many tabs but it lags a lot and the browser constantly puts tabs in hibernation to save memory--something I've never needed with Firefox. So all of you Chrome users live like this? No wonder RAM is in high demand.
I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.
@Gargron@mastodon.social
I have to admit, the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal. I don't have that many tabs but it lags a lot and the browser constantly puts tabs in hibernation to save memory--something I've never needed with Firefox. So all of you Chrome users live like this? No wonder RAM is in high demand.
UgoogledChromium is lighter on memory than both firefox and vivaldi.
It also is quiet, aka not transmitting your data anywhere unless you tell it to do so.
@Gargron@mastodon.social Have you tried the Gecko-based Zen Browser? It was started in Spain.
@Gargron@mastodon.social That’s always been the nagging issue with Chromium-based web browsers, and it’s why Safari is still, since I started using it in 2008, my default browser. I use Vivaldi as my secondary browser.
@Gargron@mastodon.social I could never understand the RAM discussions about Firefox and Chromium. For me: Firefox with one tab open (about:addons) uses 1 GB of RAM, and with one additional website tab open, it jumps to 1.5 GB. Vivaldi with 41 tabs only uses 1.7 GB of RAM (but I don’t know how many of those 41 tabs are hibernated - at least 7 are not)
@Gargron@mastodon.social Now take that information and couple it with the fact that a lot of business apps are now Electron-based. The only thing worse than running out of memory because of Chromium is running out of memory because you have 3 wholly separate instances of Chromium running with no shared resources.
@Gargron@mastodon.social It honestly sounds like you should just use Zen.
@Gargron@mastodon.social Out of curiosity, did you check Helium vs Chromium? I was wondering if you noticed a difference tho I am quite pleased with Firefox (let’s see if I still am if they stuff AI weirdness in it…)
@Gargron@mastodon.social I've tried Chrome on and off for many years.
Never managed to get on with it.
Most of the plugins don't work right and barely any privacy/adblock plugins work at all.
Pages would render only half way a lot of the time, other times IE would load instead and show the xml of the page that the link to download something would use.
@Gargron@mastodon.social unfortunately ram usage is only part of the equation. Especially on mobile, Firefox (and/or Waterfox) regularly scroll terribly, break sites, or just load extremely slowly. As a web dev it's also frustratingly slow at implementing new standards. I want to use something other than Chromium, but it's becoming rather difficult.
@Gargron@mastodon.social Although Brave is based on Chrome, it is a completely different browser. By default, it blocks ads and much more, and it doesn't lag even with 100 tabs open. You just have to try it. And in addition, there is the Duckduckgo.com search engine.
@HerrUncle@mastodon.social Brave being founded and lead by a massive homophobe is a deal breaker for me.
@HerrUncle@mastodon.social Brave being founded and lead by a massive homophobe is a deal breaker for me.
@HerrUncle@mastodon.social Brave being founded and lead by a massive homophobe is a deal breaker for me.
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