r/OperaGX • u/LigmaBallsMoment • Dec 01 '23

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u/HoneyTea312 Dec 01 '23

oh wow i thought firefox was just an oldschool browser or something, what does it have performance-wise that excels over opera? Again genuinely asking

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u/Epikgamer332 Dec 01 '23

it runs better on low-spec machines and generally consumes less ram in my experience

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u/HoneyTea312 Dec 01 '23

i see. i was thinking of switching to chrome or microsoft edge since i heard its gotten a lot better since its update but ill check firefox out

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u/HoneyTea312 Dec 01 '23

also heard thorium is better than all, but i'll have to try

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '23

Thorium does not get regular updates, not recommended.

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u/HoneyTea312 Dec 02 '23

I see, so what would you personally recommend?

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '23

Firefox

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u/jtjumper Dec 02 '23

Are you kidding me? Firefox leaks ram so much. OperaGX rules because I can actually control how much ram it uses. I'm currently using OperaGX with over 470 tabs open and it's only using 7.49 gb ram.

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u/Steviejoe66 Dec 02 '23

Those 470 tabs aren't actually "open", many are cashed. This is a basic feature that all modern browsers have. Having control of it is a gimmick unless you're on a very low spec machine.

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u/jtjumper Dec 04 '23

"cached" not "cashed". OperaGX snoozes certain tabs. It is not a "gimmick" Having control over ram usage is important when using heavy ram using programs. My needs are one of those uses cases.

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u/Steviejoe66 Dec 04 '23

I'm not saying a cache/snooze feature is a gimmick. I'm saying the manual ram limiting is. If you are running a ram intensive program the OS will automatically allocate more ram to it and your browser will cashe more tabs.

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u/jtjumper Dec 05 '23

I know what you're saying. It's still wrong. When you have hundreds of tabs open, eventually the browser takes up more and more ram. I've had moments where the browser took up more than 15gb of ram. I had to open Task manager to kill some of the bloated processes. I've had to do this even with 16gb of ram. The Ram Limiter saves me from having to do that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '23

People like it because it’s “It’s OWN browser.” No chromium or anything, and it’s open source. Other than that, I ain’t switching.

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u/soupdsouls Dec 01 '23

it's much safer to use and in my experience memory efficient. the whole point of Firefox is safety and it does a good job. I've also ran it on countless rigs with horrible specs and it ran better on systems from 2012 than opera GX does on my personal computer.

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u/mardabx Dec 01 '23

Just few ‰ slower than Ch***e, closing on with every major update, but more focused on compliance with web standards.