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“The hosts file solution doesn’t help with elements on a page (like cookie banners) which can load from allowed domains, or elements on a page such as YouTube ad-rolls.”

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.

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How many browsers have you tried? Firefox regularly runs for a long time on my machine, and I have no issues with its memory usage.

Firefox was my main browser for a long time. But after an upgrade it starting misbehaving in some way that I don’t remember now.

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.

> 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.

Yeah, I realize just saying “it leaks memory” is useless to you in tracking down why. It could be due to any of a dozen different things that QB interacts with. And the next level of investigation is something that I don’t really have the skills, nor, probably, the time, to undertake.

I'm not blaming you for that - those things are insanely hard to track down in a complex application spanning multiple programming languages and approaches to memory management... Unfortunately I have no idea where to start either :-/

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