Last night Brave browser irked its last irk. So I went on a hunt for a browser that does not think all ram, and battery power was made especially for it.
To be fair to Brave my WSL instance combined with multiple of instances of VS Code would make most systems cry let alone my little 8gb ram, but no website is that important that I care how quickly it loads.
Obviously I blame all sites off loading the heavy lifting to the client for the current horrid state of the web and resource hungry systems as it is. Aside from that the browser should know that developers are lazy fan bois of the next best thing and I promise you they let the user pay at every turn.
Anyway ramble aside.
I went on the hunt for an option to atleast not hit my battery on the laptop as hard. As mentioned WSL + Docker + VS Code is already a heavy load but frankly compared to Brave (Chrome) aside from maybe VS Code they are toddlers in the face of resource wastage especially power consumption.
Now I went through Opera and Vivaldi and frankly they are missing the point of what I want in a browser, I want to use my extensions, I want to be able to disable any imposed features but do not care much for modifying the look and feel of anything unless it is a default feature.
Since Edge is still Chrome one might think ok so all these browsers are out of play, so that only leaves the foxy. Hardly, Firefox has had 15 years or more to get itself together and they still haphazardously muck about in their own lane. If the English language tells me haphazardously is not a word one more bloody time...
Anyway, So Firefox is out and not even comparable on many benchmarks which are biased towards chromium.
Edge has been making strides specifically in mobile / laptop efficiency of their browser, sure they are incapable of mass importing my passwords from Brave and I am too lazy to export to Chrome then try import to Edge so for now I add what I need, and it is not like I don't have a backup even if I uninstall Brave and Chrome and all that jazz.
The kinda irksome thing with Edge is needing to disable all their little marketing gimmicks like copilot, news articles, suggestions of sites when all I want is the url to come up of literally the last damn site I typed in you imbecile, and who reads the news on their new tabs page? Who is the person that has a site recommend random news pieces and tabloid headings to them when they just want to make a damn search?
Who?
Are?
You?
It is your fault!!!
Anyway so I disable that and now my start page is nice and pretty and clean and none of the outside world can try recommend me nothing because they know and are nothing.
Simple.
So I will test Edge now for a while and really so far so good. I do like the Workspace feature of sharing your browser in realtime and I just noticed I won't need Grammarly because even the browser knows I can't spell by default now.
UOrigin is a great blocker by the looks of it and if there is any trepidation over having to once again see YouTube ads when leaving Brave then be assured UOrigin got yo back Jack.
And the biggy for me obviously is Keychain support and since it is still Chromium I can make as many profiles as I need each with their own history and extensions , some cleanup still required per profile since you need to disable all the Edge "Features" again but alas it all just feels a bit snappier in my opinion and for today at least did not kill my battery as quick.