Chromium memory usage
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Evening All,
Out of interest what's your rough memory usage using chromium with 3 tabs open. I'm seeing quite high usage but, my Chromium is running in a snap package.
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@StuartJordan Zero. I stopped using it.
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I recently started using Chrome mostly for development ( coding ) and then I use Brave for a lot of personal browsing as it's so much palpably faster that everything feels like it's working better. Worth checking out, even Google Docs run WAY more smoothly all the way down to scrolling large docs.
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I'm using Brave, which is Chromium based, 20 processes running on Windows, 1065MB. I can't close any tabs, sorry.
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@Grey said in Chromium memory usage:
@StuartJordan Zero. I stopped using it.
LOL, this is what I was going to post - Zero, I use FF.
not that FF is any better.
40 tabs currently using 2 GB RAM
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@Grey thank you for your input lol
on a serious note I like chrome. I use it on my phone as well.
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@marcinozga I would expect based on Brave's marketing that their browser uses a lot less memory than Chrome for indirect reasons as they're scanning and removing a large number of the heaviest pieces of web pages based on "preventing ads that track you"
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@StuartJordan Chrome's been my favorite for years and still is. It's just that now there's something that feels noticeably faster so I'm on that train. When the last major release of Firefox came out that claimed it was Faster than Chrome I tried that too, unfortunately they hadn't tested it on high-end hardware and the scrolling was very artificial feeling for me so I trashed it.
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I keep hearing Brave mentioned by a few people. I have all my passwords and sites synced on all my devices and not looking to change browsers.
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@creayt said in Chromium memory usage:
@marcinozga I would expect based on Brave's marketing that their browser uses a lot less memory than Chrome for indirect reasons as they're scanning and removing a large number of the heaviest pieces of web pages based on "preventing ads that track you"
I don't think it works that way. They have some kind of built in blocker that also forces https, I still use Adguard on top of that. Each tab/extension/process will use some memory, and I noticed that usage tends to grow over time in Chromium browsers, even if you leave tabs inactive. Ads, tracking scripts and the likes, while heavy, are not usually consuming that many resources. If you look at the source of random modern website, you'll find shitton of js and css frameworks, fonts, icon fonts, perhaps complex svg sprites, pictures, videos, and whatever else you can put on the web, and it all adds up. High memory usage by web browsers is usually caused by lazy web designers.
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@StuartJordan said in Chromium memory usage:
I keep hearing Brave mentioned by a few people. I have all my passwords and sites synced on all my devices and not looking to change browsers.
You can easily migrate that between browsers, most will offer to import all that info on first launch.
Browser is not the right tool to keep your passwords in. Especially one made by Google. Remember, when product is free, you are the product.
Password managers are the right approach here, Bitwarden would be my choice, although I currently use 1Password. Whenever I get some time, I'm planning to deploy my own Bitwarden server.
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Here is all the browsers I have, each with 30 ML homepage tabs open, not signed in.
Edge Chromium has Lastpass and ublock extensions installed, so that's running for each page, as well as me being signed in with sync and all that. (my main browser)
FireFox only has Lastpass installed.
IE, Edge, and Google Chrome have no extensions installed.
That may make all the difference, I did not test Edge or FF without any extensions.
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@StuartJordan said in Chromium memory usage:
@Grey thank you for your input lol
on a serious note I like chrome. I use it on my phone as well.
I moved to using the new Edge. 10 tabs, .8gb ram used, and when I close all the windows, it's not leaving 15 more processes open like Chrome.
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@Obsolesce Thanks for posting that that's quite interesting comparison
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Checking Firefox real quick like. It hasn't been shut down in several days, and I have 15 tabs open. 2 Gmail, one steam page, ML, NextCloud, NextCloud+OnlyOffice tab with a small document open, a second NC + Only Office Tab with a small document open, Netflix, TubiTV, Facebook, Villagers and Heroes Wiki, and O365 with my work email open.
Using ~3.5GB ram.
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I actually like edge. I used the old one, too. Also, I like powershell. I've managed to get away from using all other browsers except in select situations where java is required.
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Lynx, 1 tab open :face_with_tears_of_joy:
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@marcinozga said in Chromium memory usage:
Lynx, 1 tab open :face_with_tears_of_joy:
But why as root?
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@Grey said in Chromium memory usage:
@StuartJordan said in Chromium memory usage:
@Grey thank you for your input lol
on a serious note I like chrome. I use it on my phone as well.
I moved to using the new Edge. 10 tabs, .8gb ram used, and when I close all the windows, it's not leaving 15 more processes open like Chrome.
Ummm.... Edge, like Brave and Chrome, is "just another Chromium browser."
