[Liverpool] Alternative browser suggestions

[Les Pritchard]

Hi,

I've been using Vivaldi recently (https://vivaldi.com). So far I've found
it to be a lot lighter on memory usage than Chrome or Firefox. I've had
Chrome using 10GB+ RAM in the past.

On 27 March 2018 at 09:15, Sebastian Arcus via Liverpool <
liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I hope we are all well. I realise this could be a slightly contentious
> issue, and might just start the next holy war - so please try and keep the
> replies nice and steady! (if there will be any replies, that is) :-)
>
> I am getting a little bit fed-up with Firefox being a bit of a pig at
> devouring memory - and I was thinking of trying some other browser. I'm not
> after anything particularly radical - just something a bit slimmer, but
> still with a pretty complete modern feature set, to support whatever the
> web throws at us these days. I only use 2-3 add-ons in Firefox, and I think
> I can live without them - so add-on support is not particularly important.
>
> I thought the task would be easy - with maybe 2-3 choices out there on
> Linux - but to my surprise, even the Slackware repo's list over a dozen
> alternatives (and that is saying something!) :-)
>
> Ideally I'd like something with a significant enough community - which
> will hopefully mean it will be around a while.
>
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