Chrome is really starting to get on my nerves

Kombatant

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It's not only the fact that it consumes much more RAM than Firefox these days, I even get stuttering while playing games when it's loaded. When I close it, game plays smooth. It's not even a matter of RAM since I have 16GB and I got plenty of RAM left.

Only reason I am keeping it is because at work I have a humble Core 2 Duo HP PC, and Firefox is sluggish on it. Curses :mad:
 
Kombatant said:
It's not only the fact that it consumes much more RAM than Firefox these days, I even get stuttering while playing games when it's loaded. When I close it, game plays smooth. It's not even a matter of RAM since I have 16GB and I got plenty of RAM left.

Only reason I am keeping it is because at work I have a humble Core 2 Duo HP PC, and Firefox is sluggish on it. Curses :mad:
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Opera, always peppy for me, and I use the mini app on my tablets.
 
Chrome has been working on its memory usage the last while. It's actually a good bit better now, actually a lot better on memory usage.

The next release of Firefox on April 19th should finally have multiprocess stuff in it (for those without addons), so that is an option. EDIT: been pushed back to the end of this year again :mad:
 
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It's been acting up for me as well lately. I'm not sure if it's an issue between the last few amd drivers and chromes built in pepperflash. Since I fold hardware acceleration is always off Adobe flash is not installed on my system.

Memory usage is a bit high but what I've been experiencing is sudden increases in cpu usage with 5-6 tabs open I've seen it as high as 33% across all 8 cores.Eventually Flash crashes especially on sites with a lot of embedded adds. I tried FlashControl with mixed results. I uninstalled that and am using Adblock I left the default Allow some non-intrusive advertising checked. White listed R3D and Phoronix. Things are pretty much back to normal with the new 16.3.2 driver outside if the occasional flash crash cpu usage is back to 3% with the occasional spike to 15%
 
I use uBlock universally, seems to have a better memory footprint. I actually installed Opera a while ago, I like what I'm seeing so far. I'll give it a go for a few days.
 
after the day i installed Opera for the first time i've actually never looked back (at other browsers that is...). I've tried almost everyone though.
 
Kombatant said:
It's not only the fact that it consumes much more RAM than Firefox these days, I even get stuttering while playing games when it's loaded. When I close it, game plays smooth. It's not even a matter of RAM since I have 16GB and I got plenty of RAM left.

Only reason I am keeping it is because at work I have a humble Core 2 Duo HP PC, and Firefox is sluggish on it. Curses :mad:
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Free RAM doesn't really benefit you so, I personally have no issues anymore with Chrome or even FF consuming a fair bit.

But background apps shouldn't be causing stuttering. Check your HW settings in the chrome flags and see if toggling those helps. You can also do a quick a/b test to see if you have an inferior experience after the fact.
 
Silent-Runner said:
after the day i installed Opera for the first time i've actually never looked back (at other browsers that is...). I've tried almost everyone though.
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Liking the opera developer so far:drool:
Sazar said:
Free RAM doesn't really benefit you so, I personally have no issues anymore with Chrome or even FF consuming a fair bit.

But background apps shouldn't be causing stuttering. Check your HW settings in the chrome flags and see if toggling those helps. You can also do a quick a/b test to see if you have an inferior experience after the fact.
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yes, because there are people loading bazillion unused extensions in them browsers :eek: :nuts:
 
Sazar said:
Free RAM doesn't really benefit you so, I personally have no issues anymore with Chrome or even FF consuming a fair bit.

But background apps shouldn't be causing stuttering. Check your HW settings in the chrome flags and see if toggling those helps. You can also do a quick a/b test to see if you have an inferior experience after the fact.
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Did something even better. Switched to Opera full time. Smaller memory footprint, and same rendering engine. Win-win :up:
 
I love how Edge renders fonts, so once it gets real plugins, I'll probably just start using that full time instead of chrome.
 
Greasy said:
I love how Edge renders fonts, so once it gets real plugins, I'll probably just start using that full time instead of chrome.
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Maybe I'll use it more if it the back/forward button has a drop down history list.
They went backwards with that function. :bleh:
 
Greasy said:
I love how Edge renders fonts, so once it gets real plugins, I'll probably just start using that full time instead of chrome.
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Chrome looks blurry on 1440p and 4k for me. Firefox has problems with fps issues and video players. I really want to use Edge, but something simple as bookmark bar folder tree still hasn't be impermanent even insider builds yet and ad blockers don't block all flash base video player ads on edge.

I like vivaldi, but it needs tab drag.
 
lazyx said:
Chrome looks blurry on 1440p and 4k for me. Firefox has problems with fps issues and video players. I really want to use Edge, but something simple as bookmark bar folder tree still hasn't be impermanent even insider builds yet and ad blockers don't block all flash base video player ads on edge.

I like vivaldi, but it needs tab drag.
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Chrome looks crisp for me on 1600p. Do you have scaling turned on per chance? Maybe some setting is wonky? They updated support for crisper text a year or two ago and it has been noticeably better since.

Edge is pretty sweet but I am all in on Chrome at the moment and only really use edge for work these days. It does look crisp overall in its rendering.
 
Sazar said:
Chrome looks crisp for me on 1600p. Do you have scaling turned on per chance? Maybe some setting is wonky? They updated support for crisper text a year or two ago and it has been noticeably better since.

Edge is pretty sweet but I am all in on Chrome at the moment and only really use edge for work these days. It does look crisp overall in its rendering.
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No scaling, On 4k and 1440p.

Edge\firefox\vivaldi all looks fine on 4k and 1440p. Chrome images and text doesn't look as crisp for some reason.
 
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I thought I'd give Firefox a try. Never felt more wrong. Struggling with customizing it to my liking. But even worse than that, it's just slow. It keeps freezing and hanging on my PC at home, at work on my laptop, and on my personal laptop. I'm not sure if maybe I'm just not using it right but I went to watch a YouTube video on a tab and while I was waiting for it to un-freeze and load, I fired up Chrome and started the video there.

I really wanted Firefox to be my new browser though, since I've been getting into Selenium IDE at the office, and it's more battery friendly than Chrome for laptops. It just feels slow and buggy as hell. :cry:
 
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