I vividly recall when I first heard about Google Chrome. It was an exciting product to use for numerous reasons, it was constantly evolving, it was very fast, the design was minimalistic…in general it was just a fresh and exciting way to view the web.
Fast-forward to today. While Chrome has done wonders for the “development of Web Development” (specifically JavaScript and DevTools) the browser itself has become a hulking behemoth. In fact, let me pull up Activity Monitor real quick on OS X…wow. Collectively, Google Chrome and all of its helpers are using close to 3.5 GB of RAM. That is more than the Finder, Window Manager and kernel_task combined! This madness has to stop. I understand that Google is really pushing Chrome OS and the fact that it can now run certain Android Applications (which, granted, is pretty cool), but users of Google Chrome the web browser should no longer have to suffer.
Vivaldi seems like a very interesting alternative. I hope it lasts.
