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How to Reduce Google Chrome's Memory and CPU Usage
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I learned yesterday that apparently 500 is the limit on open tabs in Safari on an iPhone. No joke.
I have a little secret for you - Microsoft has actually had the best developers for several years now. IDK whether it was by acquiring LinkedIn or GitHub. Maybe it was Windows Subsystem for Linux. Maybe it was replacing Steve Balmer. Maybe it was when Steve Jobs died or when Ives left.
But somehow, Microsoft has ended up building some great teams and they’re building some stuff that is pretty great. Better in terms of software quality than Apple has been doing for a long time.
I’m looking for a good alternative to Chrome.
I also believe this is still an issue:
I also believe this is still an issue:
I use brave when I need a Chromium based browser for a few web-apps. I've found you don't really need uBO with Brave as they pretty much implement all of uBO's lists by default. Any benefit you've found in adding it?
Just leave Chrome open for a few hours. Not doing anything in it, just open
It’s much better on the Mac than Windows. There was a brief shining moment when it was the best browser on either, full stop. But now Microsoft just uses it as a fullscreen takeover deception to try to force users to sign into a Microsoft account, install OneDrive, change their default browser back to Edge, etc.
They don’t pull most of that crap on the Mac.
As much of a pig as Chrome is it really shouldn’t do that if you really have no tabs open and just the browser itself. If that’s the case then I’m curious how that could be as well. That sounds like a memory leak. Maybe a buggy extension.
Check Chrome’s process manager and see if there’s a specific tab doing that. If you leave Gmail open for example I can see how memory usage could steadily increase but still should not be anywhere near 10G.
Safari is not privacy preserving? Apple is not making an iota of money from Safari. So where is Apple tracking?
Only installed for Occasional Google Support requests (when their other services don't work properly either!)
Safari all the way for me otherwise.
Google could probably put Mozilla/Firefox out of business if they wanted to as most of the money Mozilla makes comes from Google paying them (although not nearly as much as they pay Apple) to set Google search as the default.
Apple is actually making a lot of money from Safari thanks largely to the around $15 billion payment from Google to set Google search as the default. Apple definitely benefits financially from Google's search/ad business. This may change depending on how the DOJ case against Google goes.
I'm sorry, but that's just ridiculous.
You can't make a claim without evidence! It just makes your entire argument total garbage from the start. You might as well claim Tim Cook is a reptile with links to the British Royal family. That's how absurd arguments like this sound.
I'm all ears to hear of this allegation, and am very open to reading about it and learning more, but if you can't provide evidence or proof, I'm calling you out on it.
As an Edge user for 2 years, and somebody who understands and even monitors their web traffic closely (I run a UDM Pro, with PiHole as my DNS), I can tell you now, there is no evidence to support your claims and what you are saying is simply not true.