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Anything that reduces the number of running chrome instances on my poor little laptop would be nice.

I tried out the example "Notepad" app in the git repo and it ran at 70MB. Is that good? I don't have any metrics about how much memory a hello world Electron app uses.

Another thread quoted 300MB baseline

Well, that seems a bit too much. For comparison, take a look at this example electron app that I wrote to basically check if you're online using IPC.

https://i.imgur.com/g94LOvE.png

It uses around 35MB.

Fresh instance of Kate on my desktop uses 27MB, albeit its way more than a dumb text editor. Still, twice native is still in the same order of magnitude, something most naive electron apps fail to accomplish.

Well just for comparison, I have Notepad++ running right now with 4 medium-sized files open in it, and memory usage is still comfortably under 5 megs.

70MB is too much for mainly native application.

For the comparison, IDE sketch (editor with syntax highlighting) from Sciter (HTML/CSS/script engine) SDK (https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/tree/master/samples/id...) takes 43 MB.

Screenshot: https://sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/idea-ide.png

Chrome is like the elephant that comes and sits on my laptop. Would be unusable without the great suspender.

I got a recent Great Suspender update that blew away my settings for the plugin. Did this happen to you too? It made me sad.

Yeah that got me too. Small price, although, i'm tempted to switch to firefox after reading comments here.

How have I never heard of this!? Thank you!

I just declared Chrome bankruptcy and switched to Firefox a few weeks ago. CPU rarely goes over 10% on my 2017 MBP. With Chrome it was almost always above 50%.

I swapped when the new FF came out. Was sick of chrome using 3–4gb of memory and bringing my computer to a grinding vault. 3 times the number of tabs in Firefox and I have 0 issues. I recommend FF now.

I used Firefox for a couple of years for the same reason, but the new release broke my keyboard shortcuts and VimFx plugin. Now I use opera and cVim, it's even better. Much faster to start than chrome, shortcuts work, syncing works, vim works, developer tools are great, no bloated background services and square tabs!

I faced the same problem with new FF. Although not as great as Vim-Fx, saka-key does solve the problem to some extent.

Tridactyl works fine in FF. (Vim add-on)

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