Agreed, or at least the headline needs to change significantly.
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Chrome Used 10X More RAM Than Safari on macOS Big Sur in Recent Test [Updated]
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Not surprised by this at all.
All who wrote that "Google has to profile you somehow" "They are running Chrome OS" and whatsoever, I somehow feel they are right, even if we don't have a real evidence of this, just "hints".
I uninstalled it few months ago because to me, a process (Google Chrome Helper) that is always up and checking if you have the latest version of a certain software (Chrome) sounds absolutely fishy.
I replaced it with Brave and hey, I noticed the OS being snappier. Not like the difference from a Yaris and a Mustang, but it was noticeable.
All who wrote that "Google has to profile you somehow" "They are running Chrome OS" and whatsoever, I somehow feel they are right, even if we don't have a real evidence of this, just "hints".
I uninstalled it few months ago because to me, a process (Google Chrome Helper) that is always up and checking if you have the latest version of a certain software (Chrome) sounds absolutely fishy.
I replaced it with Brave and hey, I noticed the OS being snappier. Not like the difference from a Yaris and a Mustang, but it was noticeable.
My own experience is quite different. Safari used around 4 to 6GB of RAM during typical workload on my M1 MacBook Pro. As during my past tries of giving Safari a try, I recently switched back to Chrome due to Safari having issues with so many websites (I guess this will never change...). Haven't seen it using more than 3GB of RAM so far. I use iStat for monitoring. Chrome is also way quicker loading some sites compared to Safari.
Not surprised by what? Did you stop reading before the point where it says that the results are completely wrong?
It’s pretty naive to think that Google’s privacy issues are costing you 500mbit’s worth of bandwidth. There is a technical reason to the difference, and favicons are not one of them. Not even close. Just not how it works.
Same thing with the RAM usage. You’re creating a tinfoil conspiracy for yourself.
It has long since been established that Chrome tracks you across the web. The only questionable thing here is that such tracking is the cause of high RAM usage. That may be incorrect, but with what we know it doesn't qualify as a "tinfoil conspiracy". It's the people who think they aren't being tracked by an ad company that need to reconsider their sanity.
Thats great on paper but when you are using a work issues laptop, have 10 tabs open being filter though Mcafee, and other apps opened. Chrome is at the top of the resource list in Task manager. I would say on any other non Corporate machine it runs as intended.
With such varying reports of different browsers and their performance in this forum, I have the feeling the issue is often something other than the browser. Somebody’s machine might have an underlying issue; background tasks might be eating memory, etc. And I think in many cases it can be the websites that are visited. Some sites these days can really be resource hogs. Many of them dump a lot of processing into javascript to be run on the client instead of doing the processing work on the server side.
Yeah because why would you want to do anything else on your computer...
SSDs that are soldered in and will wear out, so you get to throw your Mac away. More shoddy Apple “elegance.”
How many computers have you had where SSD wear was an actual concern? My 2013 MBP’s SSD still isn’t worn out.
Exactly.
Macs with soldered SSDs have existed for years.
And yet... I haven't heard any widespread cases of SSDs simply wearing out from swapping too much.
Me too, if I walk away with a page open I come back and it says page was reloaded because it was using too many resources or RAM, I forget what it said.
I wonder if Safari's issues under Big Sur is the built in no tracking app. Is there even a way to turn it off? maybe third party tracker blockers are better
So you say the advice to get more RAM is unchanged from previous Macs. Ok, sure, perhaps — but that’s not really an answer to this allegation that having 8GB RAM means it’s going to eat your SSD because of swap usage. That’s a huge allegation and needs some proper vetting beyond some random Twitter posts.
This doesn’t happen to me at all. Maybe make a note of the sites? People write some terrible JavaScript sites these days that require a stupid amount of resources to do something as easy as load a news article.
I never said on iOS. I love safari on iOS and is the only browser I’ve used throughout all the years of owning an iPhone.
Slightly off topic, but exactly one: my 2014 iMac 5K. It shipped with a Fusion Drive and over a few years so much data was shuttled between the small 128 GB SSD and the HDD that the SSD got to under 10% lifetime left by the time I replaced it. It's a known issue. Obviously a pure SSD setup is going to do much better but this is definitely something to be aware of for older iMac and Mini users where Fusion Drives were configured.
It's pretty much an open secret that Google spies on its users and sells their data yet the official browser for those working in the US government is Chrome. LOL. My work also requires us to use Chrome for our web-based work. I don't get it. We're running Windows. I'd rather use Edge. Microsoft has all my data anyway because I own an Xbox 