Web browser ram comparisons

I was trying to get the lowest possible reading for each browser.

All I did was use Task Manager and Calculator and compare the ram before and after each browser started.

I will do another test with the same 3 web sites opened on each browser.

uBlock origin is installed on most. I will see what sort of ad block can be used on the others and see how it compares.

Good thread - I love stuff like this!

Neeerds, neeerds

ligoxi...I begrudgingly hopped on discord too.

It's a decent place to lurk if nothing else

I am surprised by Epiphany, which we used as default browser in previous Bodhi version. Maybe considering Slimjet as BL browser looks like something we should think about. Actually we did. I asked Slimjet devs to answer some questions Ylee needed to know. We need them to include some features we need for Bodhi. They have not responded yet.

Stefan

@kev: how did you tested? Did you restart Bodhi after each browser test? I am asking because some browsers are notorious for memory leaks.

Yeah I'm surprised about the epiphany 3-tab results too. (I'm also super impressed with their minimal result from earlier post tho).

The one thing I've recently learned epiphany is that its based on webkit which is the only web engine still being kept up to date that doesnt require SSE2 cpu, meaning the only one that works on Pentium 3/AthlonXP. I like old PC but those spec are too old to be useful, but some people say that about my pentium 4 (that doesnt support SSE2) -but I can't stop thinking "it still works, it's not trash!"  So maybe some people with top of the line P3 with more memory than my P4 (i.e. 4GB cuz they maxed it out!) and top of the line (for its time) video card, etc, really want a working browser, and I most certainly do believe a good distro for them would be bodhi legacy. Also, people on legacy are much less likely to support chromium's gpu acceleration. So for BL6 legacy, I was kinda thinking epiphany would be good, just cuz, it will always work. (But if we go with chromium, maybe disable gpu hardware acceleration by default?).

I know one advantage on legacy systems of palemoon is that it runs everything in one cpu thread, which makes it use less resources, even on dual core system.

Please don't take the following as a request to run another round of tests, it's just me thinking. I would be curious what total ram usage is (bodhi included) including swap (if any), when opening a certain tab on a browser after clean boot. The reason I think this is, on my pentium 4/512mb, the way to keep it fast is just use one tab, or two if I know they're light enough not to cause bodhi to start swapping things out of memory to disk. But I know if I start going tab crazy and let it swap, browsing starts to seem slow instead of fast. One tab, it seems just as fast as more modern PC.  But without including bodhi overhead and whatever else browser may or may not require to get loaded into memory, and without making sure it didnt swap something, it's not as useful of a comparison.