What Is Your Preferred Web Browser?

brent

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.

Brucehankins

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.

elfprince

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

zmaint

Brave. I also like Vivaldi, but it's not fully open source. Firefox is a no go due to their open support of censorship.

Solus Plasma, fresh restart after updates, only uses _700mb of ram. Only things that are currently running is Steam _350mb and Brave with 3 tabs, (27 Brave related processes) ~ 750mb of ram usage. ₁,7gb used out of 32gb.

elfprince

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

h3o

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.

brent

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

brent

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.🙂

zmaint

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

h3o

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 : )

h3o

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

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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) 😁

WetGeek

h3o I'd prob lean toward Vivaldi

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

jppelt

WetGeek I so love Vivaldi but am even more conflicted about the blink rendering engine supremacy. Is it a lost battle? Surely, something has to come along to push back against blink? I try to use Firefox from time to time and must say, the containers add-on is superlative.

seanragout

Anybody else using Opera? I dunno for me its more visually appealing and laid out than other browsers.
Yes I know for some reason its not possible (as far as I know) to change the windows 10ish look to it but for everything else it checks the boxes.

Brucehankins

seanragout Yes! I love Opera and use it on everything. So much so that I became the package maintainer for it on Solus.
FYI, I haven't submitted opera-stable 80 at the moment because I can't get it to work without an additional script to install a different version of libffmoeg.so from an external source. It's buildable, but won't launch with the missing codecs.

Harvey

Brucehankins
I updated to the latest release of opera locally just then. Seemed to work fine.

opera 80 was released on the 5th, ffmpeg-chromium was updated in the Solus repo on the 7th. So perhaps you tested it against the old version? If you try again and have any reproducible issues regarding ffmpeg-chromium I will investigate further.

Brucehankins

Harvey thanks! I'll try it again this evening

Brucehankins

Harvey The updated ffmpeg fixed the issue. Opera 80 has been submitted for inclusion in the repos.

seanragout

Brucehankins
That's great, thank you for your work on this

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