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by snaky 2662 days ago
What if some browser would exist that could render only 90% of pages fully correct, but would be twice as fast as Chrome and use 30% of memory?
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I would use it and recommend it to people I know, as I already do. But how about no browser at all? How about I use my own video player to watch a file I received over network? We have essentially operating systems(web browsers) with pipelines, processes and sandboxing just to be completely ignored by websites which instead shove a message "install our app" down our throat.
Impossible. Look at what your memory usage in a browser goes to (about:memory). Most of it is DOM/JS, images, media, etc.: things that are used by well over 90% of pages.
I think Safari fits that mold pretty well. It often trades features for simplicity and resource efficiency.
You mean, Internet Explorer?
> twice as fast

I doubt it.

You just described my user experience with Brave.
Huh, is'nt Brave built on libChromium?
What doesn't Brave render correctly? (Asking out of curiosity, not provocation.)