Re:Opera now protects you from cryptojacking attacks
by craftyguy on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:48PM
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> Its ram usage would often clock in at multiple gigabytes less than chrome or firefox
Well that's funny, because Opera is based on the Blink engine (which chrome/chromium use as well.), so the memory usage should be very close to the same as Chrome.
Re:Opera now protects you from cryptojacking attacks
by dimonomid on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:34PM
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I moved to Opera for similar reasons, plus one more: it supports a MRU order for Ctrl+Tab, which Chrome doesn't support and doesn't even allow extensions to support.
I literally can't understand why so many people (who use and develop Chrome) think that MRU is the right thing for Alt+Tab but not for Ctrl+Tab. Sad.
Just this week i swapped to Firefix quantum to test the waters here. My initial reactions are fairly muted. It is almost an identical experience given my browsing and development habits. If anything, i would say i still prefer the speed of Opera's (well, Blink's) dev tools.