But I agree about the memory usage, qute uses insane amounts of memory and it gets worse over time, I think this is caused primarily by memory fragmentation in python- but it’s more evident with large memory hungry programs like a browser.
https://dzone.com/articles/python-memory-issues-tips-and-tri...
Yeah, something is leaking memory. Unfortunately, nobody has figured out what exactly yet - and everything I've seen so far is not pointing to Python (or qutebrowser) as a culprit:
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/1476#issue...
You’re right about that.
I’m using Chromium v.87 now and it’s the first graphical browser I’ve encountered in a while that does not leak memory. It’s fast, stable, smooth, does not peg the CPU, and I don’t need to restart it periodically to reclaim RAM.
It seems to be difficult to generalize about these things. Someone will say that a particular version of a browser leaks memory, or pegs the CPU, and someone else will say that the same version has no problems.
FWIW that's indeed my experience with qutebrowser as well. Everyone seems to have rather different experiences (or expectations?) when it comes to performance and RAM usage. Doesn't exactly make it easier to track issues down, unfortunately.