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

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

        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 : )

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              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) 😁

                  h3o I'd prob lean toward Vivaldi

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

                      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.

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                        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.

                          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.

                              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.

                                  Firefox with some addons for privacy and add blocking. Makes my free Spotify like premium 😄 Brave cant do that. What I am more curious about is Qutebrowser with some proper add blocking (especially YouTube) but that may remain a dream. So Firefox it is!

                                  3 months later

                                  LibreWolf... I guess you could count it as Firefox, but it's like... deGoogled Chrome but deMozilla'd Firefox.

                                  4 months later

                                  Microsoft Edge as primary, with Firefox as secondary.

                                  7 days later

                                  Vivaldi. Most configurable out of the box (which means I can theme it to match the colors of my channel), has good privacy and security (it has a nice configurable built-in adblocker), and is pretty fast. My only real complaint for Vivaldi is it's not completely open source.

                                  Brave as a backup.

                                  Firefox is shit; owned by facist, far-left, evil, anti-freedom Mozilla. Firefox used to be good, but over the years it has been corporitized and trashed by Mozilla. Mozilla also added hidden telemetry that is not disabled when you "disable" telemetry... and they also added ads to the browser. Adding to this pain is removing features users wanted to keep as well. It's also slower in general than chromium based browsers.
                                  I would prefer to see all linux distros not include a browser and just simply make a GUI where users could pick an alternative of their choice.

                                  Opera is now owned by a Chinese company and is basically spyware. I do use Opera GX on Windows 10, but only because I can cap resource usage whenever I stream (my internet sucks, so the bandwidth limit in Opera GX is nice). The original CEO left Opera and eventually went on to make Vivaldi.

                                  Chrome and Edge are also spyware. Both of these are owned by big tech companies who make lots of money off of data harvesting.

                                  I like Epiphany as a lightweight browser (which fits right in with the Gnome/Budgie stack, unlike Falkon), but it's not in the repos anymore?