Re:Ask HN: Browser Hopping: Struggling to Choose the Best One
by ofalkaed on Saturday April 22, 2023 @07:10PM
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>And really slow to load.
It seems to read a fair amount of data from the drive on startup and with a mechanical drive it really is very slow, with a SSD it is not bad and maybe a second for startup, but it is sort of the browser equivalent to a massive IDE and performance is put more on use than startup. It is large and complex and generally exactly what I avoid in software but the tab groups and note system hooked me, I was using surf for general browsing before that so it was quite a change.
It seems to read a fair amount of data from the drive on startup and with a mechanical drive it really is very slow, with a SSD it is not bad and maybe a second for startup, but it is sort of the browser equivalent to a massive IDE and performance is put more on use than startup. It is large and complex and generally exactly what I avoid in software but the tab groups and note system hooked me, I was using surf for general browsing before that so it was quite a change.