What Is Your Preferred Web Browser?

elfprince I just counted, 26 tabs open, so not too bad. My "active" tab was Stadia, playing Destiny 2. No crashes or performance issues.

I use Firefox partially out of historical preference, and partly out of liking and supporting the idea of there is something not chromium based.

Conifer I'm fully back on Firefox

ahh... welcome back!

brent Amazing, but I have a strong suspicion that it 's the 16G that make all the difference. Web browsers eat ram like there is no tomorrow. I have 8G, and often see over 70% usage just with Firefox and Brave open, with over 30 tabs. Delayed response is a common daily thing.

elfprince I have 8G, and often see over 70% usage just with Firefox and Brave open, with over 30 tabs. Delayed response is a common daily thing.

delayed response was my early Solus life with 4GB^^. It was normal daily to peg out at 99-100% to where you could barely move the mouse.
*and my life with wireless keyboards currently.
( I am 100% wired again and delay-free there). I digress.

with 8GB (I bought a used 4 to go with my 4) I never had 30 tabs open (20 max once maybe?) though but I could certainly finds ways to make it doggy, so if you aren't running heavy programs alongside the browers/tabs your theory (which I share) would seem to confirm 16 is the difference. I still find memory unaffordable and count my blessings the person would part with that 8 without raising the price of the rig.

brent it makes a big difference, the jump from 8-12 for my laptop definitely made noticable improvement. I normally have 20+ tabs, Spotify, and some office program running through.

Brucehankins 8 to 12 also noticeable? good to know. elfprince if you had an extra stick slot...but a quick search shows 4GB up to the $30 mark which seems way overpriced. Sigh.

brent your mobo is the real limiting factor. My laptop for instance, can only handle 12gb, so I'm maxed out. MB will also dictate the max speed you can use, and ideally you'd want to match kind for kind when adding or upgrading.
Your browser itself is also a huge factor, some are just more resource hungry to start, throw in some extensions, and before you know it you'll eat up tons of ram with only a few tabs open. I try to limit my use of extensions to only the absolute essentials. I've also got my browser in permanent battery saver mode when it's not on AC power.

brent Yes, adding another 4G/8G would be nice. I don't know if my intel nuc can handle 16G... Will make some inquiries...

Does anyone know if Brave or Vivaldi has an option to enable "full-screen" mode within its application window vs the entire desktop? Here's a screenshot of what I mean in Firefox. Basically, it can let you full-screen a video within the boundaries of the Firefox window so you can have a mini "full-screen" video that can be re-sized and moved around.

h3o can't answer your question but it thrills me that such a thing exists as a summer chess invitational.

zmaint 7 GB? That is a lot. I only count 1800Mb total. Something else running?

elfprince formatting apparently got me, supposed to be 1.7gb used

h3o if its an invitational I imagine there was regional qualifying etc and a pretty exclusive club of heavy hitters by this stage. rock stars of chess. Sad to see it's zoom-like/remote instead of an auditorium full of intense matches but sign of the times. I love playing but not real good at it. Even gnome-chess stomps on me.

brent I don't want to get this thread too off topic but will just say that invitational was more in fun. The two people in the screenshot are chess streamers (one is a GM, the other an IM) and the purpose of the event was just to have their subscribers face-off against each other to see who has the better team/followers lol I only got into chess a few months ago so not that great myself, but still enjoy playing : )

I had some time to check out Brave and Vivaldi today and thought they were both nice browsers. Actually was quite enjoying them, but for some reason I can't get hardware acceleration to perform properly on chromium based browsers. When watching the same video on Brave or Vivaldi compared to Firefox my temps were running 10c to 30c higher. If I can get that sorted out, I'd prob lean toward Vivaldi... or Brave. lol

h3o temps were running 10c to 30c higher

looks like its time for a routine cleanup of your machine's internals( and especially the cpu fans)

h3o I'd prob lean toward Vivaldi

That's an excellent choice. One you'll probably never regret.