Browser recommendations

It's the main bar where you type addresses, it works as a search engine as well
and when you start to type something it looks for that work in your bookmarks and history as well, making easy to find a page you have visited in the past, on chrome this function is quite a bit lack luster even with the addo "fauxbar" :)

Chromium is Chrome without proprietary Google stuff and spying, the code is nearly the same so it's not like memory drop would be significant.

You can't really create something optimized for nowadays computers without sacrificing memory usage. Fast stuff, for example Chrome, capable of still working stable and fast even with hundreds of tabs open, is able to do so because of focus on performance. In comparison with e.g. Firefox, Chrome is much faster when it comes to benchmarking and actual heavy-stuff, while Firefox in general slows down with every extra byte allocated, so I wouldn't use it for something heavier.

Also, keep in mind that unused memory is wasted memory. Memory is a resource that is meant to be available and used, not being free and useless. I recommend reading first paragraph of ASF low-memory-setup where I explained that concept a little better. If you never ran into out of memory issues such as your OS swapping memory to hard drive, most likely you've never reached the point where your memory was needed, yet unavailable, so you can only hurt yourself.

If you really want to tune performance/memory of Chrome/Chromium, visit chrome://about and configure it the way you like. Jumping to another browser only to solve problem A, and receive problems B, C and D you didn't have before, isn't a really smart move in long-run. Everybody has his own favourite browser and I'm not in position to state that browser X is better than Y or vice-versa. I can only state which browsers are fastest, and by being fast I mean performance and not memory usage, which is extra. Vivaldi is the only decent Chrome's enemy when it comes to benchmarks, so you might want to try that one if you still want to use something decent.

If you don't care about those micro performance differences, any browser will do and it's entirely up to you to choose one or another.

There are too many browsers for me to try them all, I simply didn't test that one so I don't know how it compares to others.

Firefox works on Windows, Linux, and Mac. That would probably be your best choice, along with some tweaks and add-ons to harden the security and privacy of the browser, unless you want to go extreme and use Tor browser or some other obscure and heavily limited browser.

EDIT: Chromium is another option, and JustArchi seems to know much more about it than I do. My brother, who uses Linux, is using Chromium. I probably will, as well, when I eventually switch to Linux.

It's based on the chromium browser, so it will use most (I haven't run into one yet personally that wouldn't) chrome extensions from the chrome store. Also, it's a lot more customizable. I have all my tabs on the left hand side in a row, for instance, and you can stack them into groups intuitively. I also load my wishlist into the side panel just so I can keep an eye on it whenever I'm on Steamgifts or visiting a site like BundleStars or the Humble Store.

A nice little bonus is you can set it up so the browser theme color changes by whatever page you're visiting. :) Zero functionality, but really kind of neat. ;)

I just like how it works and how you can set it up. Also seems pretty stable, too, for being a browser in low version numbers.

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• Extraordinary great RAM management
• Superior malware detection system
• Convenient synchronization options for all your devices
• Most devs who did addons for Firefox prioriy now mainly focus on Chrome due to its great Web Store
• Built-in Flash support

Just some of the advantages I've noticed after switching to Chrome a few years ago.

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