Awesome Tips Here’s why Chrome is SLOW (It’s NOT your RAM)
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Google Chrome isn’t as good as it used to be. While it was a great replacement for Internet Explorer and Firefox and Safari, but as it’s become the dominant browser, it seems like it ain’t quite how it used to be. And now that browsers like Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera GX and Vivaldi have all switched to run on Chromium, we decided to get to the bottom of those performance woes.
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0:00 Intro
1:53 How To Test A Browser
3:40 RAM Utilization
4:50 Broswer Performance
6:49 What Can YOU Do?
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We used LastPass in our benchmarks because it's by far the most popular password manager. We don't use, nor recommend it.
I wrote a whole new interface for firefox to make it like the best browser experience (Opera), but then with every update it kills my changes so I moved back, this chromium change might have me giving it another crack through. You might say just disable updates but thats what I did originally but the browser became literally unusable withing a month without updating it so not sure thats possible
I use brave
LastPass is still a thing? I thought they self destructed a couple years ago with that shift in business model + privacy breach? I used to use it all the time and then just nuked it from all of my devices. Honestly, Firefox's built-in password manager works perfect.
In my personal experience, Firefox is slow. Brave is the fastest.
I look for bookmarklets over extensions first simply because often times I want web extension functionality to run on click and not constantly but on any page. The limit set of provisioning, is a browser design decision issue.
Chrome is a pest that should avoided at all cost. The fact that even Microsoft fell into its trap is worrying to say the least. Google has singlehandedly reduced the ad market to 1 monopoly. And yes they make good tools, but they also do not care about your privacy.
Chrome will have the monopoly on user tracking and advertisement in the near future. Manifest V3 is just a small change (albeit a significant one) in a long series of changes that are not good for the user.
If the info on screen at 1:22 shows anything, it's that less than 6.67% of people are browsing correctly (because some people use the right browser but with the wrong extensions, so it has to be less than shown).
Lately when using YouTube on chrome it starts off fast then after a few minutes it gets really slow. I started using edge because it was getting so bad.
yeah, except my extensions haven't changed for almost 2 years, and Chrome has started stuttering and performing awfully these last 2 days… so nice theory, but no.
Firefox and Bitwarden FTW
why the f** didn't you actually test firefox to show that "hey it's WORTH a try" not just "and I leave it up to the user to figure out if it's worth it.
When you have 72% (12% edge 60% chrome) of the internet users saying to them "I use this because it's fast and compatible, I would argue that it would have been worth it for you guys to show to people that "it's basically chrome, except it's not chromium"
I'd rather see a video about Youtube intentionally throttling people using adblock. It's so bad now that after about 5 minutes of scrolling shorts, I can't write a three sentence comment without 15 seconds of input delay; I have to close and open a new tab every five minutes or so. I have zero issues on any other website and the problems on Youtube vanish if I disable adblocker.
While nobody 😂 talking about all the weird Javascript bloated frameworks…
I love my Waterfox.
I'm really surprised by that web-browser user breakdown, I thought Firefox has a bigger share of users.
Although I say this after switching to Edge on my latest Windows install, I guess I'm part of the problem.
I've always preferred Firefox & won't install Chrome on my personal desktop build.
LET THE KITSUNE GIDE YOU!!!
Honestly I’ve been using chrome pretty exclusively for years now and the performance has never really bothered me. I keep really good hygiene of my extensions, uninstalling them if I no longer need them, and it feels snappy.
The times when chrome is properly slow are typically either known websites that have slow servers, or my own internet connection speed. I’d be happy to give Mozilla another shot, but I don’t want to migrate all my passwords over if it’s not a long-term fit.
Please please do a similar review with firefox and possibly a comparison with chromium based browser. Coming from a firefox always user!
Another thing bogging down Chrome is *hardware accelerated video decoding*. If i turn it off in chrome flags, switching from normal view to fullscreen on YT is instant, with it turned on it takes a couple of seconds to go to fullscreen. My guess it's because chrome has to reconfigure the GPU pipeline and load a different decoder program into it to change resolution, then wait for the next keyframe. Whereas with a software decoder, it just calls a function to set the new resolution, and the next frame comes out correctly.
Bullshit. I'm on a ThreadRipper Pro with 512 GB RAM and my only Chrome extension is AdBlock, and Chrome still manages to suck. Can't get past 100 tabs without having issues, and by that point it's barely using 14.4 GB of RAM.
OPERA >
Brave
This was one of your best videos. I moved from Chrome to Edge and with the move I also installed the same extensions. Needless to say, and given Edge is based on Chromium, after a little while everything became slow and I get spikes of CPU usage that go above 90% just like I had on Chrome. It was a miserable experience until I went through the extensions and purged most of them. And now everything is fast again. Thank you for the valuable information.
For people ranting for needing more browsers, yeah we need them. So we can keep the web platform stuck in 2023 in 2030 because browser x and safari didn't implemented that api.
Chrome is about 25 times slower than Firefox right now.
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I didn't know Firefox was rare. I've been using it for so long I took it for granted.
lmao im sitting here using 5.2GB of ram with just chrome
Chrome is slow, because Chrome is slow
WHY TF do I need to watch a 1min and 35 sec ad with no skip for this?
I switched back to firefox recently. And I can say it definetily is over it's strange stuttery phase. And it gets some love on the extension side of things too! I am happy and don't look back.
Chrome did not invent tabs. Adam Stiles published SimulBrowse in 1998. It was the world's first tabbed web browser.
Yea no one wants to damn update chrome with some of the brain dead changes they make. Chrome is easily making firefox look far better once again with such things.
I only have 4 extensions, with 2 of them being limited to specific websites, so no major issues for me.
Ha. I hate chrome. Funnily I'm one of those that ain't using Fire Fox.
Hmmm – pressing Shift-Esc doesn't show Adblock extension even though I know it's running. So – what gives?
I use opera GX now but my friendly neighbourhood retired bandidos crack rocket nerd (Yes they exist. Yes I was suprised too) friend says Firefox is the best. I used to use firefox "back in the day" (8 years ago). If someone sees this I'd like some opinions from internet strangers.
I've just counted, I have currently 137 tabs open in 5 windows, 10 installed extensions, while watching this and Firefox is using up a total of 1.2GB of RAM.
Eh I love chromes AI features they're pretty neat I'm staying on chrome and I don't really use that many extensions. I use Firefox for certain sites like twitch.
I'm daily driving Firefox now. It's working fine for me. I switched when I first got wind of the Manifest V3 update for Chrome.
Who uses last pass anymore? Used to be a good, but ever since they've made changes around 2021 they've continued to go downhill. I'm actually thankful they did else I wouldn't have deleted my account before the breach.
Using Edge for a year. I love it. Battery life has increased too along with performance benefits