Low memory full feature browsers [Solved]
Re: Low memory full feature browsers
Sorry, couldn't help myself. Now have learned about a feature of Brave Browser -- Brave News. Besides being a news aggregator site like Gargle Gnus, you can add your own RSS feeds so you don't need a separate RSS feed reader app. The "only" problem with it is addiction to it.
Re: Low memory full feature browsers
Once again! Just found out about another cool feature -- "Brave Talk" . You can start a video call or conference (up to 4 participants for free) with no time limit, and the other participants can use other modern browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox). Communication is encrypted and all goes away when the session ends. No need for Zoom for you and your friends. Over 4 participants and you need a subscription, but so?
Re: Low memory full feature browsers
Sorry, can't help it. Have to add more for the record!
Read an article in one of my news feeds that compared the most used (popular?) browsers for memory use, and Firefox came out on top (or bottom, in the memory used stat). They compared Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera. The gist was that the Chromium-based browsers (all but FF) had the same memory management or something like that, so somehow Firefox came out on top. BUT THEY DIDN'T TRY Brave! So of course, I had to re-install Firefox and do a comparison. I installed the same 3 add-ons (Bitwarden, PrintFriendly & PDF, and AdGuard). I fired up clean versions of the two browsers. Firefox indeed used the smallest amount of memory! Let's start really browsing, opening Google News and opening the same articles on each browser. They stayed neck and neck for a few tabs, but when they got to 7 same articles opened, Brave was WAY under Firefox (as shown by ps_mem,py output):
1.4 GiB + 224.2 MiB = 1.6 GiB brave (27)
2.1 GiB + 141.0 MiB = 2.2 GiB firefox-bin (23)
I think the difference would be even more if I ditched the AdGuard extension on Brave, since it is mostly superfluous. Go Brave!!!
EDIT: Incredible -- I left the FF browser as-is, tab-wise, but refreshed the Brave browser with all 17 tabs (over 2 windows) I had open, and with the default "Balanced" memory setting in place (there is one to be even more aggressive about saving memory!), here's the comparison now:
1.8 GiB + 238.1 MiB = 2.0 GiB brave (33)
1.9 GiB + 136.4 MiB = 2.0 GiB firefox-bin (21)
I'll be removing Firefox -- again.
Read an article in one of my news feeds that compared the most used (popular?) browsers for memory use, and Firefox came out on top (or bottom, in the memory used stat). They compared Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera. The gist was that the Chromium-based browsers (all but FF) had the same memory management or something like that, so somehow Firefox came out on top. BUT THEY DIDN'T TRY Brave! So of course, I had to re-install Firefox and do a comparison. I installed the same 3 add-ons (Bitwarden, PrintFriendly & PDF, and AdGuard). I fired up clean versions of the two browsers. Firefox indeed used the smallest amount of memory! Let's start really browsing, opening Google News and opening the same articles on each browser. They stayed neck and neck for a few tabs, but when they got to 7 same articles opened, Brave was WAY under Firefox (as shown by ps_mem,py output):
1.4 GiB + 224.2 MiB = 1.6 GiB brave (27)
2.1 GiB + 141.0 MiB = 2.2 GiB firefox-bin (23)
I think the difference would be even more if I ditched the AdGuard extension on Brave, since it is mostly superfluous. Go Brave!!!
EDIT: Incredible -- I left the FF browser as-is, tab-wise, but refreshed the Brave browser with all 17 tabs (over 2 windows) I had open, and with the default "Balanced" memory setting in place (there is one to be even more aggressive about saving memory!), here's the comparison now:
1.8 GiB + 238.1 MiB = 2.0 GiB brave (33)
1.9 GiB + 136.4 MiB = 2.0 GiB firefox-bin (21)
I'll be removing Firefox -- again.