On my surface go 2 I get a better experience in terms of battery life etc than with edge than the others (I’ve experimented with chrome and Firefox). So I just use edge on everything for the sync stuff. Sure has a ton of “helpful” stuff in it I have to hide it turn off though.
I don’t blame the users here, remember from 2008 to 2012 where chrome ads where plastered on every website. Google knew what it was doing spreading its Trojan horse. I wouldn’t have known about the existence of chromium if I wasn’t lurking of privacy forums, blame google this time.
I want my browser to be hungry. I’d rather have it using the memory for sites than have the sites reload when I switch tabs. I want it to be fast on all things.
This is not exclusive to Chrome. No matter what I use, I want it to be running from RAM and not have to swap or reload anything. Even things on my phone. I absolutely hate when I’m in the middle of multitasking on my phone and I go back to some information and the app has been unloaded and needs to load from scratch again (sometimes requiring a login to view the information I had previously retrieved).
That being said, I load everything I own up with about as much RAM as I can, and I buy devices with more RAM than I think I’ll need. Generally when considering an upgrade to my current cellphone, I’m looking at the RAM of the new phone and considering if the increased amount justifies the work and cost involved with changing phones (if there’s an increase at all). Since RAM will be the most significant factor in whether or not something can keep up with me.
My main PC has 64G, my laptop has 32G, and I believe right now, my current phone has 8G. It may be time to upgrade my phone…
Don’t be scared. I’m rarely over 32GB of use. I mainly have it for when I need to do some virtualization/lab work.
Even when I do labs though, I usually debate whether to run them local or put them on my home server with 256GB of RAM.
Edit to add: since I have the memory, I’d rather that chrome uses it for useful stuff. No point in having the memory if it’s just going to sit vacant most of the time. I already bought the RAM, so I might as well use it.
I’ve been thinking about upgrading. I have room to increase the memory on my main system, and my laptop. I can easily double both…
I believe my main system will support upwards of 1.5TB of RAM in specific configurations. I likely would not exceed 256GB. Beyond that and even the best CPUs for my system probably wouldn’t be able to support enough processes to really take advantage of it. Even now I’m more concerned about CPU speed in my main rig than I am about RAM. I’ll probably pick up something with faster cores soon.
Except that the spyware is so intertwined into Google’s products that many websites straight-up break without them. Google Drive won’t even let you download stuff with third-party cookies disabled.
Just install a de-googled Chromium fork (ungoogled-chromium or Brave), and create a separate browser profile for Google Drive? Then it doesn’t matter if you have third party cookies enabled or not, your browsing data is completely isolated for your main profile. That’s what I do for almost every proprietary web-app I use (Discord, youtube, shopping services, whatsapp web, f*cebook, etc.). The only issue is that the profile picker gets rather crowded, but to overcome that I wrote a rofi script that lets me launch chromium profiles directly
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