Hands-on with new web browser Vivaldi

Edwe said:
I think the old adage, "Fast, Good, Cheap, pick any two" applies here (where "cheap" refers to memory consumption).

In my experience:

Internet Explorer: Fast & Cheap
Firefox: Good & Cheap
Chrome (Opera/Vivaldi to a lesser extent): Fast & Good

EDIT: Opera 9 was all three, in my opinion. Only abandoned it due to security concerns.
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Yes the last proper Opera was indeed perfect IMO.I guess there's not much too it,I'll just have to bite the bullet and get more RAM.
 
Edwe said:
I think the old adage, "Fast, Good, Cheap, pick any two" applies here (where "cheap" refers to memory consumption).

In my experience:

Internet Explorer: Fast & Cheap
Firefox: Good & Cheap
Chrome (Opera/Vivaldi to a lesser extent): Fast & Good

EDIT: Opera 9 was all three, in my opinion. Only abandoned it due to security concerns.
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How fast does a browser have to be anyway? FF FTW!
 
Skerminkel said:
How fast does a browser have to be anyway? FF FTW!
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Well as long as it's not slow it's good. Avant regularly has the title and menu bar disappearing a good second before the browser window when minimising it.
 
Edwe said:
Me:

1. See project
2. Get excited
3. Download
4. "Oh my goodness it supports tab stacking! This is awesome!"
5. Load some sites, browser gets suspiciously sluggish
6. Open up task manager; see several Vivaldi processes, some using 200+MB of RAM
7. "Wait a minute... this is just Chrome with a pretty dress, isn't it? This is just the new Opera all over again"!
8. Go back to using Chrome (if my browser is going to use 4GB RAM, it may as well be out of testing and full-featured)
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I'm passing then. I've stopped using Google Chrome because of these RAM issues. Computer feels new
 
FWIW, on Mac (with Flash not installed) Vivaldi wasn't a memory hog at all, even though Chrome still is.
 
So everyone moaning about Chrome being a memory hog... Are you sure it's chrome and not your hundred extensions? What's the alternative if Chrome is a memory hog? I can't see the difference between Chrome and FF in that department. IE? Who even uses it? Opera=Chrome so that's not an option... So which one are the Chrome detractors using then?


*edit* seems I'm wrong: Google: chrome vs firefox RAM
 
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Arietans said:
So everyone moaning about Chrome being a memory hog... Are you sure it's chrome and not your hundred extensions? What's the alternative if Chrome is a memory hog? I can't see the difference between Chrome and FF in that department. IE? Who even uses it? Opera=Chrome so that's not an option... So which one are the Chrome detractors using then?


*edit* seems I'm wrong: Google chrome vs firefox RAM
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Chrome on its own will eat your soul.


Firefox ftw ! It's like a new PC
 

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I prefer to stick with Chrome because it's slightly faster than Firefox (although Firefox is by no means slow), but mainly due to Chrome's brilliant integration with Hangouts. We use hangouts a lot at work and many of my friends have started moving over to hangouts from WhatsApp as well. If you have the RAM to spare, it's still the best browser, although I really do feel that they should do something about the issue anyway.
 
Edwe said:
I prefer to stick with Chrome because it's slightly faster than Firefox (although Firefox is by no means slow), but mainly due to Chrome's brilliant integration with Hangouts. We use hangouts a lot at work and many of my friends have started moving over to hangouts from WhatsApp as well. If you have the RAM to spare, it's still the best browser, although I really do feel that they should do something about the issue anyway.
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I have to agree, I am somewhat of a google hater, but the simple fact is chrome just works.

FF crashes frequently and for some reason I see graphical glitches in it on my laptop. Also, don't even think about using it between several different firewalls/proxies, ****s it over every time.

IE has no decent way to sync bookmarks between the different computers I use, and I refuse to use onedrive just to be able to do that. The modern IE is also far from compatible with most things.

I would've given opera a shot, but when it started screwing me around when all I wanted to do was install adblock, I pulled the plug on that very quickly.

So, chrome was the only option left.
 
the simple fact is chrome just works.
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Funny you should say that. On some sites it doesn't actually work (it battles with ewn.co.za) and sometimes my laptop power management won't work unless I exit Chrome.

Otherwise it 'works' well
 
Chris.Geerdts said:
Funny you should say that. On some sites it doesn't actually work (it battles with ewn.co.za) and sometimes my laptop power management won't work unless I exit Chrome.

Otherwise it 'works' well
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Fair enough, but personally I haven't had noteworthy cases like that, and actually neither have I really had in FF and Opera. It also wasn't the reason I ditched FF.
 
Mayor gripe right now is that new tabs open and take you away from the tab you are busy with... time to check if there is a setting for it as it is annoying as anything!
 
It's still too unstable and keeps crashing. May be due to it being in alpha stage but it's more than likely the Chromium Blink engine that's the problem again. I hope they ditch it at some point.
 
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