{"id":514,"date":"2023-10-05T18:43:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2023-10-05T18:55:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:55:15","slug":"least-expensive-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/least-expensive-web-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Least &#8216;Expensive&#8217; Web Browser ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">The Least Expensive Web Browser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">By &#8220;expensive&#8221; I mean how much it weighs down the OS when performing its services. In this case, the readings I took were when the browsers were just open, sitting there, and doing nothing in particular.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">&#8220;Expensive&#8221; is the number of threads being managed, the CPU time and so on. All read by just watching Apple&#8217;s Activity monitor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">IOW, if your browser is in the background, open but not frontmost, how much is it chewing up of your system resources?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">This is a simple, non-scientific sampling. You can expect that your own readings will differ, but that said, I would expect your results to be generally the same, (else why would I bother to mention it? \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Cut to the chase: DuckDuckGo is the lightest, least-expensive, and by a <em>huge<\/em> margin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">From worst to best, by thread count, my results were:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Opera (22)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Safari (18)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Edge (16)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Chrome (10)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Firefox (8)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">DuckDuckGo (1)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">(Yeah, I was surprised how well Chrome ranked, but I have it as buttoned-down as possible.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Just thought I share what I found. YMWV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Least Expensive Web Browser. By &#8220;expensive&#8221; I mean how much it weighs down the OS when performing its services. In this case, the readings I took were when the browsers were just open, sitting there, and doing nothing in particular. &#8220;Expensive&#8221; is the number of threads being managed, the CPU time and so on. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-info","category-mac-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleau.art\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}