[Liverpool] Alternative browser suggestions

[robin592 at yahoo.co.uk]

Hi Les,

>  I've had Chrome using 10GB+ RAM in the past.

That might be what you get for keeping 100+ tabs open at once!  :-)

Robin


On Tuesday 27 March 2018 10:55:39 Les Pritchard via Liverpool wrote:
> 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:Chester Debating <chesterdebating at hotmail.co.uk>
> 
> > 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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