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Been looking for a browser to replace Chrome which is very difficult I know. But Chrome just gets so bloated that my M1 Macbook Air is not able to run it anymore. How good is this browser in terms of actual daily performance?

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F… irefox?

You should try Firefox or Waterfox then!

also worth checking out Librewolf: https://www.librewolf.net/

I have just switched from Orion to Vivaldi partially as it seems to use less memory.

I suspect this is because I use several profiles amd each one in Orion is in effect a copy of the whole Orion browser whilst in Vivaldi less things a re duplicated. Or possibly my style of when to close things works better wehn an app has many profiles like Vivaldo or Safari rather than each profile is an app like Orion or Firefox.

Why not Safari? It works great (it is my main browser).

I use Safari all the time as well, but it doesn't behave very well with Reddit (keeps closing and reopening tabs due to "too much memory" problems. Other than that, it works for 99.9% of everything else.

Usually when sites get reloaded after sitting for a while due to “too much memory” it means the site has a memory leak (or several) that it’s owner has chosen to not address.

Annoying regardless, but arguably Safari is doing the right thing here.

Yeah, I'm sure you're right. Still irritating. I tend to use Firefox for Reddit now.

I have hundreds of open tabs in Brave at all times on my M2 MBA and it's fine. It puts tabs to sleep when inactive and is generally quite usable. Also supports all the same extensions as Chrome (plus older ones that Chrome doesn't support).

It’s fast but it has just enough rough edges that I always go back to Firefox.

That computer, even with only 8GB RAM, should still handle Chrome well. You may have something bad installed or something misconfigured.

That was my thought. It was only released in 2020, and to great performance fanfare. To be 'not able to run it anymore' seems like it could be infested with a number of undesirables.

Brave is the best balance of privacy, security, and usability. I recommend it.

Been a big fan Brave for a while. I just recently learned about Brave Origin, the core browser with all the crypto/ads/etc removed, free for linux and one-time payment for others: https://brave.com/origin/

Yeah brave is a well rounded browser. It's the only chrome alternative imo

Great concept but buggy so not a daily option imo

I’ve used it daily almost since it was released without any real issues. But I generally do not run too many extensions or probably push the limits of my browsers.

For me, Orion’s vertical tabs are the best out of the box of all the browsers I’ve tried since I prefer their arbitrary nesting.

Depends on the platform, I expect. I love the feature set and layout, but it's been unusable for me as a daily driver on Linux from various bugs. I'll be giving it another honest go when it's out of beta.

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