After a few months of development, the Pale Moon browser has released its latest iteration. Along with security features, the key release for this version seems to be centered around expanding the browser's media support.
Offtopic, but somehow relevant: they also published the results of their survey in March. The feedback says a lot about the browser's user base, and highlights the direction the team will take in the future.
[What browser(s) do you use? Do you use a separate browser for certain sites? Same browser for everything you access online? What browser differences lead you to use one browser over another? -Ed.]
(Score: 1) by loic on Friday July 14 2017, @02:58PM (2 children)
You know, it is not Firefox which became bloated, the web did. And furthermore Firefox memory usage is not linear. The first pages cost more memory than the additional. ones
About the CPU usage, that is always the same: you must have a badly behaving extension. Each time I have seen this (and complained about it, my bad...), it was a rogue extension.
Here I have been using it since 0.6, hated it through its dark ages (no, we have no memory leak, my good sir) and to its redemption (seems like we had a friggin' huge pile of memory leaks and fragmented memory, sorry!!!1 now it was fixed).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 14 2017, @08:11PM (1 child)
No, both did. A number of browsers use less resources than Firefox.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 15 2017, @02:02AM
"A number" is only technically true, as "one" is a number, which enumerates Lynx.
The rest are all comperable. Some specific scenarios will go one way or the other. I am not aware of a big-O single outlier now that Opera has taken the Dark Road, nor a meaningful outlier to the 0th and 1st degree scalars.