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How to Reduce Google Chrome's Memory and CPU Usage
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I've found a foolproof method to reduce Google Chrome's memory and CPU usage: Don't use Google Chrome!
The insane amount of menus and sub menus on Microsoft edge is absolutely ridiculous. It’s like its own operating system.
I swear it took me an hour to go through every option in Microsoft edge just to get it to be as good as Firefox —> right out of the box basically. This was in Win10 though…
Just use Firefox. It’s not the FF of the late ‘00’s
I swear it took me an hour to go through every option in Microsoft edge just to get it to be as good as Firefox —> right out of the box basically. This was in Win10 though…
Just use Firefox. It’s not the FF of the late ‘00’s
Are you sure you made your research?
Recommended privacy browsers:-
Privacy Tools , PrivacyGuides ,
ToSDr: Microsoft Services - Grade E , worst grade possible
Wired:
"MICROSOFT EDGE RECEIVED the lowest privacy rating in a recently published study.... Brave, the upstart browser that makes privacy a priority, ranked the highest."
Trinity College Research Paper:
"For Brave with its default settings we did not find any use of identifiers allowing tracking of IP address over time, and no sharing of the details of web pages visited with backend servers."
"Edge also sends the hardware UUID of the device to Microsoft and Yandex similarly transmits a hashed hardware identifier to back end servers. As far as we can tell this behaviour cannot be disabled by users."
Proton:
"...Microsoft also makes money from targeted advertising and has a long record of violating its users’ privacy(new window). "
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As for Jitsi, If its FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) whats the problem with taking their code? Thats the whole idea of FOSS software. Any one can take the code and change it to their liking and redistribute it.
GNU-Free Software:- :“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software"
Yeah the Firefox that you only need to click a couple boxes and you can make Firefox a lot stronger than default settings. I know they're "all the same" but I'd rather trust Mozilla over Google. If you care about privacy then Firefox is the best option. I've seen Brave mentioned often but I don't like it. With some basic quick adjustments it's far better than Chrome in terms of privacy. If you are really into privacy you can harden the browser. If you're really really paranoid then you could use Waterfox or Tor (which is based on Firefox). Let's not pretend that Firefox is anywhere as bad as Chromium based browsers lol.
You can say Google already own the internet with how popular chrome/search is...that's obvious. What I meant, as I'm sure you knew, is that if Chromium becomes the only kind of web browser then Google will TRULY own the internet.
I never said Firefox would overtake Chrome/Edge or Safari. More people should use it though if they care about the future of the internet.
Tell me something I don't know
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I used to use Waterfox on Windows, because Mozilla didn’t provide any native builds. Only 32bit for legacy hardware.
Firefox is far inferior to Chrome-based browsers in terms of performance. Slow JS engine, lack of proper multithreading (and thereby also fault protection). And you need plugins for adblocking, which Brave has already built in.
For those concerned with privacy, it helps a lot using multiple browsers and keeping things separated. Also use VPN (or TOR) and spin up VMs for the shady stuff that you later revert back.
There are other browsers like Edge, Brave, Firefox...its not just Chrome and Safari.
I have good experience with 1blockr. Its not free, but you can turn 1 filter ON for free and that can be the ads filter.
Chrome, Brave, and Edge are all built upon and a customised version of Chromium. So they all should work more or less the same unless there is something I am missing. Some websites might not work correctly with Brave but that is only because it has an adblocker and sometimes sites with ads malfunctions because you blocked their ads.
Your profile picture says it all, someone who is biased therfore anyone who has a different opinion is either blatantly wrong or an investor of said company. Ironic you suggest and possibly use the only browser (Brave) that has a cypto wallet built-in which came under heat so much so that the CEO had to apologize.
Brave browser CEO apologizes for automatically adding affiliate links to cryptocurrency URLs
The company touts its browser as a privacy-focused option that doesn’t track users.www.theverge.com
I am not biased I speak facts. If you do not care about your privacy enjoy whatever you want. You judge Brave for 1 mistake that lasted few days or something like that but ignore a company that only source of income is user's data that sells it to advertiers. You ignore this long list of horror:-
-Google Agrees to $392 Million Privacy Settlement With 40 States
-8 ways Google constantly invades your privacy - Kim Komando
-Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet
-Why You Shouldn’t Use Google Chrome After New Privacy Disclosure - Forbes
-Google agrees to pay $13 million in Street View privacy case - CNN
-4 insane ways Google has been invading our privacy
-Google’s education tech has a privacy problem - Vox
-Google and YouTube Are Invading Children's Privacy - Fairplay
-Google and YouTube Will Pay Record $170 Million for Alleged ...
-Gmail’s privacy problem and why it matters | Proton
But I am sure Brave is the real devil here.
Also a crypto wallet does not invade your privacy, you do not have to use it, I never turned it. I do not know how crypto works. Brave is Free and Open Source Software , this means you can read every single letter of code in it to double check it yourself. Heck you can compile it yourself!
I know it does on desktop, but thanks to Apple's increasingly draconian rule that all browsers on iOS must use Webkit, it doesn't on iOS. I literally only use it there for desktop sync. I know content blockers don't work as well, but Firefox's own built in tracking protection does help a little. Can't wait until the EU tells Apple to do one and and allow true third party browsers. Can't wait for an iOS Firefox that supports extensions.
Tab unloading as a strategy sucks. It works on the assumption that the web page you were using hasn't changed when it goes to load it again, which is increasingly rare these days.
Infinite scroll page? Back to the top with you. Partially-filled form? Kiss the data goodbye. Web forum index? All the topics are shuffled up due to new posts.
I might as well turn off tabs completely and use bookmarks.
I blame the increased RAM usage on (some) site admins. Pages have become stuffed with tracking and analytics, huge multi-megabyte JavaScript frameworks, and other gimmicky nonsense. All this junk needs to be put somewhere.
Infinite scroll page? Back to the top with you. Partially-filled form? Kiss the data goodbye. Web forum index? All the topics are shuffled up due to new posts.
I might as well turn off tabs completely and use bookmarks.
I blame the increased RAM usage on (some) site admins. Pages have become stuffed with tracking and analytics, huge multi-megabyte JavaScript frameworks, and other gimmicky nonsense. All this junk needs to be put somewhere.
No. Since Chrome is Google’s browser, they don't have to pay Apple or anyone else to have Google set as the default search.
They all use chromium but they implement features and things differently
I don't use their adblocker as I already have Adguard
Because it's based on chromium doesn't mean that it'll behave like chrome (not be as fast )
Likely because Google has for years engendered this problem. What started as a "Ooh, look! A new browser that's not bloated" has turned into a very, very different beast altogether.
I like...
- A competitive browser space, something Chrome initially brought to the table.
- 's privacy stance and practices far more than Google's.
- Opt-in far more than Opt-out when it comes to privacy-related functionality.
- Some web apps (esp. G-Apps) are tailored to Chrome while others may work fine in other Chromium browsers (e.g., Brave, Edge, etc.)
- Chrome's ubiquity in the education sector.
- Google's privacy practices, especially with regard to Chrome.
- Chrome's ability to vacuum as many resources as possible.
- Chromes opt-out philosophy toward privacy settings.
- "Did you install Chrome?" --The default response of nearly every IT help desk when their own web portal fails to work.
Meanwhile, I continue to struggle to understand how anyone who values privacy both in principle and practice continues to use nay advocate for Google Chrome.
I actually agree with most of your points. However, I continue to use Chrome because it works best for my online life, and Google actually gives you very granular controls over what they're allowed to do and not do with your data. I've tried de-googling my life before, and honestly it made controlling my data more difficult overall.
And if you (not you who I'm responding to, but the general population "you") don't trust that they're doing what they say they're going to do when you turn some things off, then you really have no reason to trust a lot of things online.
I agree, but I now have a lot of tabs open because they’re reminders of things to check on regularly, finish reading, etc. that I only want to see when using the web (so I’m not making lists). I try to close them regularly, to keep it sane, but I definitely have more than I used to.
Pah, Netscape! Always after the latest shiny thing eh? Mosaic is good enough for anyone.
Can they have save state , kind of like how ios apps do in the background?
I am not sure if you use the extension or the vpn blocker, or the DNS but the built in adblocker does things the other things do not do like blocking in video ads and aesthetic fixing (takes out white space left where ads were supposed to be) it does not hurt to run both in fact its encouraged.
adguard extension
This should be illegal. Its IE all over again. I do not understand how they program a website to work with 1 browser specifically since HTML and the rest should be a standard.
That being said, from my experience FireFox usually the browser that gives me least headaches with websites 🤷♂️
Adguard already does Aesthetic filtering ! And it does block ads on videos as well i believe
Your pp is awesome btw !
I'm now back on my Desktop with my usual work set (including multiple web apps, such as citrix light, teams, other messengers etc) split over three screens.
Brave (based on Chrome) uses around 2 GB of RAM out of 64GB that my 2015 machine (almost 8 year old!) has.
It's really a non-issue for most environments in my view.
Embedded and Mobile with some load might want to use another browser though.
Brave (based on Chrome) uses around 2 GB of RAM out of 64GB that my 2015 machine (almost 8 year old!) has.
It's really a non-issue for most environments in my view.
Embedded and Mobile with some load might want to use another browser though.
Every browser out there is inferior to Firefox in every way possible. The JS benchmark isn't accurate because Chrome has no CPU cap for JS engine. While Firefox CPU cap for a percentage amount * max cpu single core clock speed/core count of resources to be used by the JS engine/browser tabs this is one of the reason its very efficient. This is why Chrome is power hog(not to be confused with more memory bloating). Firefox on the other hand uses memory based on total system memory available say if you have 8gb it will use less if you compare, the more available system memory it uses, better the responsiveness. Any app that uses more memory and auto scales is automically superior which is exactly what Firefox does. Using Waterfox is obselete ever since Firefox started x64 build(multiprocess release?). I hate this concept of people using distro apps like Palemoon, Waterfox etc. This is the very reason Linux is garbage(except for CLI apps).
Firefox properly uses the GPU for HW decoding, 2d page drawing by using gpu window layers and 3d apps always runs monitor's framerate, properly uses system color profiles, best browser for OLED displays for viewing HDR content because of proper dynamic tone mapping api with host OS. The upcoming Asus 500hz monitor i'm sure Firefox will be the only browser that will scroll smoothly at 500fps.
I'm not surprised... I've had Firefox crash on me because its memory usage just kept going up and up. "Lessons learned" include closing out tabs as necessary, but also just closing it down every now and then.
One general tip is to use the browser that also matches the hardware.
Android and Chrombook... Chrome
Windows... Edge
iOS and MacOS... Safari
They're going to be optimized for the hardware they're on.
Simply wrong.
CPU usage of Chrome is not an issue. It was never one. If it would arise, I can simply (re)nice the process, so that other processes get more CPU time. My CPU is from 2015, yet very rarely is so loaded that I have to think about who gets how much CPU time.
On the other hand, there were several JS heavy websites that took seconds longer to load and were sluggish to interact with due to Firefoxes slow JS engine. Users don't like that.
Memory usage should depend on the workload and not on the memory that is available. Otherwise, it is hard to get predictable results. Such optimizations could be made user tunable though.
It's Mozilla's fault for not looking after their Windows users and lagging behind in their releases. Several other Distibutions also had their own Firefox forks because of organizational issues with Mozilla.
Linux is far superior to Windows and OSX in most cases, easier to handle, customize and run.
Of course (and can be said about a lot of things companies use to track, monitor, etc.) but given that many/most users don't bother to change things like pre-set defaults, Apple setting Google as the Safari default search has been very lucrative for both of them and is helping Google maintain its dominance in search.