Web Browsers

[eriefisher]

What is your web browser of choice? Do you use different browsers for different things? How do you find the performance and resource hit?

Firefox, 8 tabs open, idle 3-15% cpu, 3-10% memory.
Chromium(fresh install, 1st time opened), start page only, idle for 10min, 18-25%cpu, memory also ~20%
Google-chrome(uninstalled) If I remember correctly both cpu and memory were extremely high.

I used FF for many years but switched to Google-Chrome a while back as I found FF was becoming really buggy. More recently I was finding Google-Chrome getting slow and consuming huge amount of resources so I went back to FF. It seams to be working quite well now.

I know Opera is another choice(I think) but have not looked at it in years. Another one is Midori. It was going to be the default browser of the XFCE environment but was dropped. I did play with it back then and it was promising. Palemoon seems to be getting traction as well. Anything else out there?

I realize these are not legitimate benchmark test but am curious as to what your finding.

[wdscharff]

Firefox and PaleMoon .

The utilization in percent is rather pointless, different processors and memory expansion, there is little to compare.
I come here to 3% with 8 open tabs in FF. In one of them a youtube video is playing, in one I type the text for the forum in deepl
Processor 2%, Ram 5%, idle 0% (conky) or a bit more accurate with the task manager: idle 0,22%, with youtube video and keyboard/mouse running use between 1,5-4%, RAM 5%

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[JuhaT]

For all my browsing I use Firefox since quantum engine came, and it started to par with chromium based browsers in speed, it may not be as fast as Brave (parts of a second or so here and there mainly) with all the extensions I use in FF, but it is open source and privacy orientated. And I can configure it the way I want. I have a decent desktop computer so I dont notice any slowdowns if there is any. And since I have plenty of RAM doing nothing I dont bother with how much or little memory programs use.
I use Brave for work and bank related stuff only since it gives a warm and fluffy feeling to separate them from general browsing :)

[Huckleberry Finn]

Anything else out there?

SlimJet.

[TTwrs]

I use Firefox-esr 68 almost exclusively, with ungoogled-chromium.appimage only for connecting to Jitsi servers. I like Firefox because it is so customizable. And with certain 'mitigations', along with uBlock-origin and uMatrix (with Javascript defaulting to off for everything until I whitelist it) Firefox is one of the most secure and private browsers.

These pages might be useful to someone considering different browsers...
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html - many browsers
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox.html - Firefox
https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/firefox.html - Firefox mitigation guide

[andyprough]

Palemoon: Using 0.3%-1% cpu and 2.2% memory when idle with 4 tabs open
Brave: Using 18%-20% cpu and 5% memory when idle with 4 tabs open
Firefox: Using 0.3%-7% cpu and 2.3% memory when idle with 4 tabs open

All have noscript and ublock addons, Palemoon using "eMatrix" as the noscript alternative.

[eriefisher]

Anything else out there?

SlimJet.

I never heard of that one. Downloaded the deb(64) but I had to edit the control file for it to install. It's hitting the libpango naming scheme problem. It installed no problem though. First run. Single tab.
Cpu-17-23%
MEM-3-6%
Appearance-Chromium, Google-Chrome. Default search engine is Bing. Preset bookmarks are all shopping sites.

I think I will stick to Firefox. At least for now.

[Mauser]

I use Firefox that I have modified for everything except for one important site that requires 3rd party cookies which I use Chromium just for that site.

[Huckleberry Finn]

I, too use Firefox for serious things. And it's really better than the old days for ram usage etc.

SlimJet is really light with 32bit version. On 64 bit I couldn't see much difference, but not bad... (based on Chromium)

[AA BB]

What about Firefox vs Firefox-esr ? ..pros/cons ?