nebulaone@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months agoWhy is it so expensive to develop a web browser?message-squaremessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down13
arrow-up1121arrow-down1message-squareWhy is it so expensive to develop a web browser?nebulaone@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareI'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.placelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·7 months ago uses up tons of ram In my experience, Chrome is a RAM hog. I use FF. Are other browsers even worse with RAM use than Chrome?
minus-squareSavvyWolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoI imagine the Chromium devs have put a lot of work into reducing memory usage. Work that’ll have to be replicated by whichever small team is working on this hypothetical browser.
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoWhat other browsers? The Firefox forks as well as Safari and those using WebKit aren’t worse, but the rest are just rebranded Chromes.
In my experience, Chrome is a RAM hog. I use FF. Are other browsers even worse with RAM use than Chrome?
I imagine the Chromium devs have put a lot of work into reducing memory usage. Work that’ll have to be replicated by whichever small team is working on this hypothetical browser.
What other browsers? The Firefox forks as well as Safari and those using WebKit aren’t worse, but the rest are just rebranded Chromes.