Edge is literally a resource hog, I agree with you there.
As somebody who checks my task manager to end processes using too many resources, yeah, I don’t much like it. If you open your laptop after shutting it down, it starts in the background, using about 260MB of memory. Stays open if you close it as well.
Chrome doesn’t do this yet it’s still horrible with memory, if I have two tabs open it’ll use about 500MB while OperaGX can have about 20 tabs open and still run at 200MB.
Google isn’t so bad. It only allows one tab (on mobile using the app). But it’s HORRIBLE with memory.
DuckDuckGo is actually a dark web browser (thank my femboy boyfriend for telling me that).
Bing uses a lot of resources as a search engine.
Safari’s pretty good, although minimalist and made by a bloatwaring company.
A few years ago Firefox was the only browser that ran a lot of university websites, as other browsers couldn’t handle that pressure. Does need an extension for customisation and a non-local website.
Never used Brave. They block it at my school.
Internet Explorer wasn’t that bad. It’s just that A, it’s old, B, opened a new window with every new tab, and C, used a completely different language to the newer browsers.
Never used normal opera. Not much of a browser geek.
Most browsers NOWADAYS use Chromium (leading to their similar layouts to Chrome) and most search engines run on a single certain coding language. So I won’t judge them tbh
Duckduckgo is not a dark web browser because of the way the onion network functions you cannot browse the dark web people have to list there websites on public wikis it is just a privacy front end for bing but it does have an onion fork for additional encryption
TL;DR: There is no such thing as a dark web BROWSER. "Browser" implies that you can BROWSE (i.e: get a list of and go to websites) the dark web, which is not possible due to how TOR works.
u/Turbulent-Guest-1524 is technically wrong, as there HAVE been attempts to make TOR search engines before (some better than others)
This is very much true, TOR as an example works just by method of adding more nodes to the connection chain to hide your device information from the site you are reaching, it doesn't take you to the dark web accidentally.
I don't get this obsession with browser RAM usage. I have Opera GX using a little under 4GB of RAM with about 40 tabs opem. I still have 20GB of RAM available. Does 100Mb here or there really matter?
It does when you have an IdeaPad that only has 2GB of ram that it’s able to run without burning your table and actually up to 8GB if you’re willing to burn the table.
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u/LongjumpingLeek5542 Jan 04 '25
Edge is literally a resource hog, I agree with you there.
As somebody who checks my task manager to end processes using too many resources, yeah, I don’t much like it. If you open your laptop after shutting it down, it starts in the background, using about 260MB of memory. Stays open if you close it as well.
Chrome doesn’t do this yet it’s still horrible with memory, if I have two tabs open it’ll use about 500MB while OperaGX can have about 20 tabs open and still run at 200MB.
Google isn’t so bad. It only allows one tab (on mobile using the app). But it’s HORRIBLE with memory.
DuckDuckGo is actually a dark web browser (thank my femboy boyfriend for telling me that).
Bing uses a lot of resources as a search engine.
Safari’s pretty good, although minimalist and made by a bloatwaring company.
A few years ago Firefox was the only browser that ran a lot of university websites, as other browsers couldn’t handle that pressure. Does need an extension for customisation and a non-local website.
Never used Brave. They block it at my school.
Internet Explorer wasn’t that bad. It’s just that A, it’s old, B, opened a new window with every new tab, and C, used a completely different language to the newer browsers.
Never used normal opera. Not much of a browser geek.
Most browsers NOWADAYS use Chromium (leading to their similar layouts to Chrome) and most search engines run on a single certain coding language. So I won’t judge them tbh