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      6 days ago

      If that were the entire truth, neither brave nor opera would be as popular as they are.

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        6 days ago

        In my assessment, all browsers suck badly at performance and resource usage at the moment.

        How does a 25mb website content result in 350mb of ram usage for that tab? And why would it not render basically instantly.

        I am old enough to remember in the early 2000s, when page loads were near instant. Even for large e-commerce and social media websites.

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            5 days ago

            Its not so much the JavaScript, its the layers and layers of JavaScript libraries that are never optimized or trimmed for purpose.

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      8 days ago

      Why? Browsers and software can become ever more complex and hog more resources like RAM, which are basically free