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I also monitored privacy and performance and opera gx was the worst

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[–] dugmeup@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What did you conclude? The screenshot tells part of the story, keen to hear the other bits

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So opera gx is the worst compared to performance,privacy etc

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would you be willing to share all your results?

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago

Yes but lost some of the results

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Firefox stayed winning

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You might also be interested in how much modern browsers write to your SSD, even when idle.

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] reimufumo@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

to save your tabs in case of a crash or for the "restore tabs on open" option

you can disable that or reduce how frequent it is in firefox about:config, but on chromium too bad

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Or use a RAM disk with something like Profile sync daemon

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 0 points 1 month ago

Where in the config do you disable that?

[–] Oisteink@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shame you lost the privacy screenshots. Whats the numbers behind the apps, and how did you test?

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used speedometer and a privacy test I forgot it's name

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Opera is basically spyware.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why I compared the browsers

[–] bilb@lem.monster 0 points 1 month ago

Wow, I'll be switching from Firefox to Task Manager!

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Running those four browsers at once is not a clever way to compare them. You should turn off all background process unnecessary for the operating system to work and then run just one browser, reboot each time you’re done with measurements. And to make sure whether the e performance depends on the operating system, you should do the same on every major OSes (Linux, MacOS and Windows). Don’t forget to open the same websites with the same number of tabs for a fair comparison.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago

Opera gx is the only browser that does not support linux and I dont own a MacBook soo

[–] aisteru@lemmy.aisteru.ch 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nice! I'd be interested to know about other browsers too

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I wanted to do that but I decided to only compare browsers that are widely used

[–] aisteru@lemmy.aisteru.ch 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure Vivaldi and LibreWolf are more widely used than Firefox or Edge...

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago

Vivaldi is like opera on steroids and librewolf is technically firefox so yeah

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The title promises so much, but OP's dog ate the homework and there's barely anything he can show us.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago

Bcs I lost the 2 images speed (yeah thought it was kinda useless)and privacy test

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, thanks?

But this is way too generalized. Were tabs open? Maybe Opera pre-fills where Chrome/FF doesn't. There's a reason real tests isolate and have a methodology.

While I'm not surprised by the screenshot, it's not actually useful in any way on it's own.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago

Ohh okay but I had around 9tabs open

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not to defend the Chinese spyware, but that's 26 open tabs, no? Or what does that number represent, other than individual processes (Correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't used Windows since Win 7)?

From my understanding, it's how many processes it's running?,

Could be open tabs, but my Firefox always has at least (3) even when I've just opened it.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Interesting, what was the browsing experience for each? Aside from opera, which I noticed you mentioned was the worst of the 4

[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Did you open the same websites (same number of tabs) at the same time across all of the browsers?

From the screenshot it looks like you have a different number of tabs open in each one.