Thanks, Michael! (
@FullScale4Me) I'll have to try the built-in AdBlock, but it's certainly not as fluid to tweak as with built-in browser extensions, where you can click to disable or enable this and that without having to restart the browser altogether. HOWEVER, it might be interesting to try it out with the "little" MX-Viewer browser that is supplied with MX Linux (more later). And while I already had seen the Wikipedia page, I hadn't paid as much attention to it for the "scores" -- looks like Falkon and qutebrowser ought to be tested as well. Thanks again!
First thing I noticed this AM after removing other browsers (Midori, LibreWolf, and -- sigh, 'cause I like it -- Zen), and letting the 'puter just sit there overnight, is that without competition from other large apps (or just other browsers?), Brave does NOT "get out of the way", RAM-wise. It had been taking up gobs of MBs and not freeing up any memory. Not having the above other browsers left to check this notion out, I decided to try out the MX-Viewer. Move over, links2 browser! Well, sorta -- see the RAM usage results. Also for the record, MX-Viewer is s-l-o-w.
I ALSO discovered a small Brave helper (overseer?) that's about the same size as the icewm-session module for IceWM, that I did not previously notice and left out of all the previous test reports. Not that it puts much of a dent in the usage, as it's only around 17 KB. But yes, as I suspected, Bravve starts dropping memory once MX-Viewer gets cranked up. See the test results below. Last note for now (?
), found out last night that the Brave browser "shields" code is written in Rust. Dunno how much of the rest of the browser is, but that supposedly allows Brave to not worry about full Google Manifest V3 implementation. Without further ado, this is what I saw:
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4.0 KiB + 13.5 KiB = 17.5 KiB brave-browser-s
473.0 MiB + 135.6 MiB = 608.5 MiB brave (16)
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4.0 KiB + 13.5 KiB = 17.5 KiB brave-browser-s
556.8 MiB + 142.9 MiB = 699.8 MiB brave (17)
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4.0 KiB + 13.5 KiB = 17.5 KiB brave-browser-s
561.4 MiB + 142.8 MiB = 704.1 MiB brave (17)
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4.0 KiB + 13.5 KiB = 17.5 KiB brave-browser-s
561.3 MiB + 142.8 MiB = 704.1 MiB brave (17)
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4.0 KiB + 13.5 KiB = 17.5 KiB brave-browser-s
448.4 MiB + 122.0 MiB = 570.4 MiB brave (14)
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4.0 KiB + 13.5 KiB = 17.5 KiB brave-browser-s
106.5 MiB + 37.4 MiB = 143.9 MiB QtWebEngineProcess (4)
132.4 MiB + 26.1 MiB = 158.5 MiB mx-viewer
373.3 MiB + 78.8 MiB = 452.2 MiB brave (14)
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4.0 KiB + 13.5 KiB = 17.5 KiB brave-browser-s
165.1 MiB + 24.5 MiB = 189.6 MiB mx-viewer
139.2 MiB + 77.4 MiB = 216.6 MiB QtWebEngineProcess (5)
374.8 MiB + 78.9 MiB = 453.7 MiB brave (14)
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4.0 KiB + 12.5 KiB = 16.5 KiB brave-browser-s
92.8 MiB + 9.0 MiB = 101.8 MiB mx-viewer
343.2 MiB + 53.5 MiB = 396.6 MiB QtWebEngineProcess (7)
387.3 MiB + 51.2 MiB = 438.5 MiB brave (14)
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4.0 KiB + 12.5 KiB = 16.5 KiB brave-browser-s
103.0 MiB + 8.4 MiB = 111.4 MiB mx-viewer
310.7 MiB + 62.0 MiB = 372.7 MiB brave (14)
363.9 MiB + 53.4 MiB = 417.4 MiB QtWebEngineProcess (7)
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4.0 KiB + 13.5 KiB = 17.5 KiB brave-browser-s
102.1 MiB + 7.7 MiB = 109.9 MiB mx-viewer
300.3 MiB + 58.6 MiB = 358.9 MiB brave (14)
366.0 MiB + 45.2 MiB = 411.2 MiB QtWebEngineProcess (7)
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