alt Hacker NewsBeen looking for a browser to replace Chrome which is very difficult I know. But Chrome just gets so bloated that my M1 Macbook Air is not able to run it anymore. How good is this browser in terms of actual daily performance?
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Why not Safari? It works great (it is my main browser).
I have just switched from Orion to Vivaldi partially as it seems to use less memory.
I suspect this is because I use several profiles amd each one in Orion is in effect a copy of the whole Orion browser whilst in Vivaldi less things a re duplicated. Or possibly my style of when to close things works better wehn an app has many profiles like Vivaldo or Safari rather than each profile is an app like Orion or Firefox.
I have hundreds of open tabs in Brave at all times on my M2 MBA and it's fine. It puts tabs to sleep when inactive and is generally quite usable. Also supports all the same extensions as Chrome (plus older ones that Chrome doesn't support).
It’s fast but it has just enough rough edges that I always go back to Firefox.
That computer, even with only 8GB RAM, should still handle Chrome well. You may have something bad installed or something misconfigured.
Brave is the best balance of privacy, security, and usability. I recommend it.
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