Chrome's latest release promises up to a 5x reduction in CPU use and a longer battery

[WYP]

Chrome is now faster and more power efficient.



Read more about Chrome 87 making the browser faster and more efficient.

[Digikid]

Or use a more powerful and efficient and NON SPYWARE and browser like FIREFOX.

[NeverBackDown]

Originally Posted by Digikid

Or use a more powerful and efficient and NON SPYWARE and browser like FIREFOX.

How does that help at all? Every site you visit still datamines the h**** out of you.

Your using the internet. You're not safe.

[Yttersta]

Originally Posted by NeverBackDown

How does that help at all? Every site you visit still datamines the h**** out of you.

Your using the internet. You're not safe.

Eh, I have used Firefox since the initial release of Quantum and whilst I think the addons/extensions do more work for my privacy than the mostly similar browser engines; at least the metadata doesn't go directly to a big corporation that already knows annoyingly much about me.


However, after not caring about privacy at all for a few years into the 2010s, I must admit the accuracy of Google's suggestions in regards to what I really do online have dropped significantly over the past 3 years. I use Ublock origin, plus ghostery, plus a couple of settings to ensure a less accurate online signature, and it is still promising to see the effects.


Don't give up on your privacy.

[meuvoy]

To begin with, they need to offer a 5x reduction in RAM usage. Then they need to offer all the tools Opera offers like integrated messaging apps, custom screenshot utility with the ability to capture a VERY long page at once, integrated adblocker, etc, to convince me to go back after almost a dacade away from this browser. Extensions are something pretty much all browsers have, and considering most browsers these days are chromium based you have a pretty good chance of getting a Chrome extension to work on a different browser. I've never had one that didn't work on opera to this day. So...

[looz]

Originally Posted by NeverBackDown

How does that help at all? Every site you visit still datamines the h**** out of you.

Your using the internet. You're not safe.

It takes some effort, but I've got some protections in place.

Known bad domains are blackholed by my DNS (pi-hole) and I enable JavaScript and cookies on a whitelist basis. I guess I could go further by making browser fingerprinting more difficult, and by using a VPN so it would be a shared IP. But I have my doubts that companies outside Facebook go that far.

And I generally just give garbage data if I register, if websites ask something silly like birthdates and real names.

[looz]

On another note, I've never had RAM issues with either Firefox or Chromium... Even on 4GB laptops. I assume people just look at their task manager shaking their fist, if they consume more than some arbitrary amount.