however, it comes with adblock plus built-in, and it’s the sole addon you can ever have. falkon is very fast and lightweight but it doesn’t support addons.i have more than 13 tabs open and active at the same time right now with ublock origin, nano defender and decentraleyes running and it’s taking up around 700mb of ram, which is what chrome uses for 3 tabs. it’s responsive and amazingly easy on the ram. it has full firefox addon compatibility, themes, syncing (even the open tabs), and built-in adblocker if you don’t want resource intensive addons. comodo icedragon is by far the best lightweight browser i’ve ever used on my intel atom processor windows tablet.
That way you can more easily switch back to your old profile. If you're comfortable doing so you can also manually create a new profile and run a few tests there. This should give you an idea of base memory usage before you tweak settings and re-install extensions. This creates a new profile and imports bookmarks, history, form data and tabs from the old profile into the new one, effectively clearing out old cruft (your old profile files can be found on your desktop). I've kept Firefox, Chrome and Edge open while I was doing some research on my phone, and after about 5 minutes they were at 600 MB, 610 MB, and 1010 MB (!) respectively, and 15 minutes later they were at 405 MB, 555 MB and 875 MB. In the past perhaps Opera could've done better, but they're Chromium too now, so probably the same numbers as Chrome or worse.
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I suspect Brave would be closer to Chrome, but can't be arsed to install and test it. With three tabs open (,, ) and only the default extensions/add-ons enabled, both Firefox (beta) and Google are using around 700 - 710 MB right after they've finished loading, while MS Edge uses around 800 MB.