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10 years of chugging the RAM to the point of rendering the whole machine unusable? :P For some time, I've been constantly switching between Firefox and Chromiu
by seba_dos1 8y ago
10 years of chugging the RAM to the point of rendering the whole machine unusable? :P
For some time, I've been constantly switching between Firefox and Chromium. I was switching to Chromium because it was more responsive than Firefox on light workloads; however, on heavy ones it was absolutely unusable, so after a while I was switching back to Firefox - forming the browser-switching loop.
Thankfully, Firefox got a lot better in the past few years and it's been a while till my last browser switch :) Chromium might be fast, yes, but only if you either use the browser pretty lightly, or you have tons of free RAM around. I have only 8 GB of soldered in RAM and hundreds of open tabs on average, so Chromium is not for me. 20-30% improvement sounds like a good start, but not really a big enough difference.