Comment by scheeseman486
1 year ago
> "Chrome works marginally better"
Performance, compatibility, security. Chromium runs faster, it works with more websites, it's sandbox is better, particularly on Android. I don't care much about memory usage as I don't need a billion tabs open at once (does anyone). There's options available beyond Chrome that offer most of the same privacy benefits as Firefox does.
I think marginal is an understatement. As for Mozilla's business model, what business model? They're throwing everything at the wall to see if it sticks and virtually nothing has, all the while their browser has languished. Going full cynic, at this point the only reason it is allowed to exist is because Google deem it useful to have it around as a counterpoint to accusations that they have a monopoly.
> (does anyone)
Oh yes. And you don't even need that many tabs open for Chrome to eat half of your RAM.
Fewer than 100 will massively pig out memory, on Android, Linux, and MacOS, for Chrome, IME.
My main FF instance has ~1,500 tabs FWIW, though I'll often bypass those for a given session by running incognito only. Even then I'll easily hit 100+ tabs in only a few minutes.
There's a cool feature web browsers have called "bookmarks"
RAM is supposed to be used. "Saving" it doesn't bring any value, it's actually just waste.
That's true, until another program needs ram and crashes because chrome is hoarding it all
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