Sorry to realize that Vivaldi is just a variant of the memory consuming Chrome :(
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In the final builds it may be possible to use better optimisations in the compiled files made by Vivaldi.
Components already compiled will be as big as they are.In ye olde days of optimising for the low-spec Amigas, many programmers used a quick gauge by compressing the compiled file.
If the file did not shrink much it was well optimised, but if it shrank to 75% of the size you needed to get pruning again.
If it shrank to half the size then you had missed or borked something.
Some files will contain lots of ASCII, and often big areas of nothing (visible in a Hex reader).
The ASCII can't be helped, but the spaces can be cut, giving the file a smaller footprint in RAM and quicker load-time.I had a quick skim through one of the 2 biggest DLLs in the root, and can see a few gaps and areas with mostly space
[attachment=1326]VivaldiSpaces.jpg[/attachment]Compressing them both with UPX 3.91, shrinks them to half their size.
[attachment=1327]UPX.jpg[/attachment]UPX is obviously specially designed for this, but it does show there is room for improved optimisation.
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Without a shadow of a doubt the best browsing experience you can have with an iCore processor is with the new versions of Opera browser. I'm a serious power-user who's been known to have 250 tabs open at one time but of late I can average 80-120 tabs. I've tried all the browsers and nothing comes close to Opera. Yandex browser isn't too bad but nothing compares to Opera. I've used PCXFireFox and LawlietFox and they both work well but PCX can start to stutter with multiple tabs whilst some Firefox's can handle multiple tabs better. Firefox has come on leaps and bounds compared to what it used to be and if I had to then I would use a Firefox varient as a default browser. In fact I gave the new PCXFireFox a whirl but it was hindered and no where near as good as Opera. I tried Waterfox out and that performed better than PCX when dealing with multiple tabs and certain pages. If you're looking to Firefox then try PCXFireFox, Lawlietfox, Tete Atlier,Cyberfox or Waterfox and see which suits you the most. I think you might like to take a look at Maxthon browser because the last time I was using that browser it was low on resources but for me I find it slow at times. Vivaldi cannot even make their 64bit windows version installable on Windows 8.1 machines and it is a complete dog when it comes to power-using and multiple tabs. Vivaldi remind me of a Vauxhall Corsa with expensive bodykits and exhausts as they rush to add a swiss army knife of features but lack reliability and optimization. I still often wonder if their new installs keep losing the speed-dials like they always have done. Have they given you an option to save the speed-dials yet? Opera scores a negative on saving bookmarks and speed-dials for me but otherwise it trumps the rest with ease.
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Why a browser should use gigs of ram for showing some pages with text and a few images beats me!
That sort of thing fits readily into much less RAM. At least it did 15 years ago, when that's what the web generally was. If you're looking at average webpages today, generally referencing hundreds of resources from many sites, with MBs of page source (not the images/plugin data/etc referenced from them) then that takes up much more. Now personally I'd love some kind of page simplifier technology that would only attempt to display the actual content (something probably exists, but I have doubts about the likely downsides when it doesn't work) but that's just going to lead to an arms race, and doesn't generally let us use the modern web.
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I only found out about the Vivaldi browser a few hours ago and was thrilled to find out about it. However I have to agree to being somewhat disappointed that it's also running on the Google Engine with all its problems, including that of the browsing monopoly everyone used to complain about when the monopolist was Internet Explorer. As someone who also sometimes uses a large number of tabs, it is a pity to see that Presto Opera (the "real" Opera) remains dead and Vivaldi is another reskinned Chrome. I understand the reasons for that, but it's disappointing anyway.
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Blink is tweakable, and browsers built on it, more so. I suspect the lion's share of developers' efforts once the features are complete and relatively bug-free, will be devoted to tweaking the living crap out of all resource and web interactions to achieve the leanest, fastest browser they possibly can. And given the pedigree of this particular team, I fully expect their optimiziation efforts will be head and shoulders above the rest.
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