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Windows 7 Vivaldi 1.0.118.19 (Developer Build) Empty startup: 217 MB Tab with http://redwolf.de http://redwolf.de : 28 MB Tab with https://github.com/wchrist
by Mithaldu 12y ago
Windows 7
Vivaldi 1.0.118.19 (Developer Build)
Empty startup: 217 MB
Tab with http://redwolf.de http://redwolf.de : 28 MB
Tab with https://github.com/wchristian/Microidium https://github.com/wchristian/Microidium : 41 MB
Every new tab opened takes at least 28 MB, and pages with higher complexity use more. The progression is linear.
Simply put, they can put in as many features as they like, if they don't get the memory use in check, it'll be even less of an alternative.
However, since it is based on Blink, they're stuck with the memory profile of the exact same rendering engine as in Chrome/Opera 15, and can barely differentiate themselves by providing a different UI.
This is just the same thing as 10 years ago when everyone was making "browsers" based on an iexplore engine webview. As much as i want someone to take up the baton of Opera 12, this is not done by repeating the mistake Opera ASA did and forking Chromium.
- mikhailt 12y agoThe memory usage doesn't seem that bad for a modern browser that sandboxes each tab. How do you suppose they reduce the memory consumption for each tab without being able to reuse many of the content between tabs?