I tried Vivaldi on windows and whilst it was initially good, it just seemed to get more bloated as time went on and performance seemed to slip.
I am to some extent feature agnostic, I just want a browser that doesn't take up half my RAM. I have a MBP with 16Gb RAM. Typically 10-20 tabs in Chrome. I run two Parallels VMs, the system dies. So Parallels is what it is, but Chrome (did the calcs) in excess of 6Gb, Google Keep 500Mb and Dropbox about 500Mb. So without doing anything I have lost 7Gb. It's criminal that a browser takes up 40% of available RAM on a 16Gb system. Rant mode off.
I don't use Safari (I like it) because one thing I use all the time in emails is inline images, safari (stupidly IMHO) doesn't have that very basic feature. I've tried firefox and am told it's the least resource hungry, but it seems always slow and kludgy.
Is Vivaldi still a resource hog (compared with Chrome/safari/firefox)?? You can have all the features in the world, but if it's just a gob of bloatware I'd think you won't get very far. Streamlining resource (especially RAM) usage should be your number 1 priority (IMHO, FWIW, YMMV etc etc).
So after reading lots of (slightly older) posts saying what an absolute resource hog Vivaldi is, I'd like to hear it from the horse's mouth, what's Vivaldi resource(RAM) usage like compared to the other browsers?
Thanks...
I am to some extent feature agnostic, I just want a browser that doesn't take up half my RAM. I have a MBP with 16Gb RAM. Typically 10-20 tabs in Chrome. I run two Parallels VMs, the system dies. So Parallels is what it is, but Chrome (did the calcs) in excess of 6Gb, Google Keep 500Mb and Dropbox about 500Mb. So without doing anything I have lost 7Gb. It's criminal that a browser takes up 40% of available RAM on a 16Gb system. Rant mode off.
I don't use Safari (I like it) because one thing I use all the time in emails is inline images, safari (stupidly IMHO) doesn't have that very basic feature. I've tried firefox and am told it's the least resource hungry, but it seems always slow and kludgy.
Is Vivaldi still a resource hog (compared with Chrome/safari/firefox)?? You can have all the features in the world, but if it's just a gob of bloatware I'd think you won't get very far. Streamlining resource (especially RAM) usage should be your number 1 priority (IMHO, FWIW, YMMV etc etc).
So after reading lots of (slightly older) posts saying what an absolute resource hog Vivaldi is, I'd like to hear it from the horse's mouth, what's Vivaldi resource(RAM) usage like compared to the other browsers?
Thanks...