!rant
"What's the best browser that doesn't devour all of my HW resources?"

Seriously guys, Opera GX. You can set how much ram and cpu it eats, and it only eats that much. Yes, even to the point of it being unresponsive and laggy, because it keeps itself within the boundaries you set.

Seriously. Regardless of the number of tabs.
Also, it looks nice.

Downsides: You forget WHY it lags sometimes, so you get irritated, but when you remember, the irritation turns to smile.

I am not a paid shill, i'm just a user and I use it primarily and only for that single feature.

i'll admit though, no idea about tracking and all that. to be honest, i don't care much about that, beyond the point where it just eats EVERYTHING your HW has, because fuck you.

OGX... if it's doiing tracking nd bullshit... at least it's really keeping all of it within the limits you set. The only reason I ever use other browser (FF) is because FF does tab scrolling, which is nice for porn.

/me throws 64GB of ram at the problem

Firefox worked just fine in that regard.

I prefer Vivaldi, I left Opera for many reasons, went to Chrome actually (Chrome was in it's Beta still - there was no Chrome Stable). Then I left Chrome because of how much of a glitchy, unresponsive mess it became.

@iiii firefox has that feature?
oh wait you meant porn, not resource limiter.
yeah.

@theKarlisK i never used opera, i was FF since ever, then Chrome, then why the fuck are they eating everything, then found Opera GX.
a decade of evolution.

Any browser that can run uBlock Origin.

It isn't the browser that eats your RAM and CPU cycles - it is the websites' JavaScript code you keep running for free in your opened tabs.

PS: On Linux, CGroups can be used to limit resources a process or group of processes can use.

@Midnight-shcode I mean it was not an issue in the first place

Never had problems with FF/LibreWolf and as i preffer privacy i will probably never switch.

I currently prefer Vivaldi although I would love to love Firefox again 🦊💞

FX [ Goes to website to download browser, but can't as current browser he is using is at 100% disk usage and lagging.. ]

Installed it, ran it ( 100% disk usage for a little while.. ) and its much much faster on websites !

But, I couldn't find a way to limit its upload speeds, only downloads ?

Looks like it might be my new, goto browser for grunt work !

I gave it half my RAM and half my CPU to play with.

I would switch but all of my passwords and important stuff are tied to chrome/google, it’ll be a drag to redo all that so I’m just sticking to chrome

I've had a few disasters with my new computer so I'm incredibly paranoid about the temperatures at the moment.

Switched to GX from chrome and it's running significantly cooler now, haven't felt the need to limit ram/cpu usage at all.

Think the only complaint I have is how basic the android app and synching is.

So it's basically just another Chromium-based browser, but in this case with the added feature of being owned by a Chinese investment firm.

Yea, no thanks, I'll stick with Firefox or one of its derivatives until a better non-Chromium non-Chinese non-Big Tech browser comes around.

@NotJeckel i've heard duckduckgo wants to bring a non firefox/chromium Browser but well it's from duckduckgo and probably not opensource

Interesting idea.

But If I open 75 tabs of stack overflow, I want all 75 beeing responsive.

Memory is cheap.

I'm at 32 GB ram and I think i'll go 128 before the end of the year.

It's always a choice : do you want to lag (Like you describe) or you put more money into your setup.

@iiii FireFox lately (Past 3 years) is useless. A lot of CSS doesn't work, in our company in 20159 we were telling "You need last browser, like Chrome, FireFox, opera" now we tell our clients "You need last version of Chrome."

We stopped even testing on firefox. Too many bugs. (Firefox doesn't consider ports for CORS for example, which makes localhost testing pointless)

@Oktokolo yeah ok it's pages, technical detail, point is browser can keep them in check, after all that's part of what sandbox is for, no?

@Nanos glad. to have helped :)
do search on that bandwith usage, i never played around with it but i'm pretty sure if it has setting for one direction it will also have setting on another.

also mine is constantly capped to 1 gig memory and 20% cpu and even with absurd amount of tabs the active one is silky smooth

32 GB DDR4 costs about $100. Currently I have Chrome running 70+ tabs (I circled through all of them to make sure they're all active) and it's using about 8 GB of RAM & 10% CPU. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons to ditch Chrome, but pretty sure $25 worth of RAM isn't one of them.

You can also use a Firefox plugin, that unloads tabs after some time

@hitko But you need a $200 motherboard to plug that cheap RAM into :-)

Then another $100+ for a CPU for that motherboard, since your last CPU won't fit in the new motherboard..

I've 24Gb, which took ages to locate specific, it works RAM for sure stuff.

I could upgrade to 48Gb, maybe, the motherboard apparently takes it, but considering what a pain it was to get 24Gb working, I think I'll forgo that until I get a newer ( 12 years old.. ) motherboard in 5 or 10 years time when I come to upgrade again. :-)

Be nice to have 32Gb, or 64Gb, or 96Gb next time.

Before 24Gb I had 8Gb, and nowadays when browsing, that 24Gb can fill up so fast !

A single webpage can be 1Gb..

@NoToJavaScript never had such an issue. Maybe the sites you have in mind are just shit?

I loved Opera GX back when I used it. But about a year ago I fully switched to linux (arch btw) on all of my devices. Now I use brave as my main browser.

@green-portal afaik, you can export all the passwords and import in a password manager of choice

@Zohiu why brave instead of ungoogled chromium with ublock? Same stuff but actually more customizable

@iiii I mainly chose it because it looks clean and didn't need any configuration. Was just an install, done kind of thing. Performance is not really a concern for me, it doesn't have to be lightweight. I also have enough ram for basically anything.
I could also just go with chromium and get some addons. For now though, I have brave and it works. If I feel like it I might switch in future. There just wasn't a reason to switch yet.

Brave is the only browser gross enough to actually insert ads on other people's sites. All browsers have their issues, but Brave are hypocritical dirtbags that somehow manage to be more unethical than Google itself.

@NotJeckel I have never seen a single ad using brave. They never inserted their ads. If it exists, it's disabled by default.

@Zohiu It's not really a secret or anything. It's called Brave Rewards, they block all outside ads, then insert their own ads and give users tiny amounts of crypto for each ad they view. Yes, it's opt-in, but that doesn't make it any less gross that a browser is making money by inserting ads onto internet.

@NotJeckel Okay yeah that's stupid.

@Zohiu asked because I've tried brave before, just to see what it is, and was quite disappointed by it.

I have to use Google Meet with my cam on all day, with an i3 that shit uses a lot of CPU and RAM, GX prevents it from passing 25% thankfully