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What computer browser are you using?
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Rjschatts
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What is a computer? Those bricks?
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The bricks with the big screen so you can see a lot of information at once and you don't need a magnifying glass? Yes.
TooBigToFit
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I don't think I've really settled on a browser yet, I kind of hate all of them.
I used Chrome for the longest, but it's gotten so bloated and annoying. The last straw was when they removed the ability to go back a page with the backspace key, only allowing it through the use of a wonky extension.
I switched to Vivaldi. It had lots of customization and features (allowing me to use backspace to go back again), but wasn't as stable, and certainly didn't fix the bloat.
I gave the new Edge a try, and it seems to work well, though no backspace thing again.
Of course, all of them are based on Chromium, so how different really are they?
I used Chrome for the longest, but it's gotten so bloated and annoying. The last straw was when they removed the ability to go back a page with the backspace key, only allowing it through the use of a wonky extension.
I switched to Vivaldi. It had lots of customization and features (allowing me to use backspace to go back again), but wasn't as stable, and certainly didn't fix the bloat.
I gave the new Edge a try, and it seems to work well, though no backspace thing again.
Of course, all of them are based on Chromium, so how different really are they?
There is a memory leak on Firefox. There was a fix to it but I cant remember it. Closing it and restarting helps. Opera is fine,, its not quite as functional as Firefox though. I use Opera on my phone as its easier to use on my phone than FF, despite the random ad that comes up.
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predatorhunter
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I use Brave Browser
Who uses backspace? Get yourself a 5 button mouse or a multifunction scroll wheel. Backspace is slow.
TooBigToFit
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I use my Thinkpad undocked 90% of the time.
I started running Opera today and turned off the built in VPN. The computer slowed to a stop and the memory filled to 3.7 GB of my 4GB. I looked at the resource monitor and the process below was using 1.7GB. The computer worked so well yesterday and the only difference seems to be the VPN. I turned it back on when Opera started and my free memory is over 2GB and holding. The VPN seems to be protecting my computer from something being pushed. I can delete the process below from Resource Monitor and get back control. It restarts itself with much less memory used after the VPN is running.
Image PID Hard Faults/sec Commit (KB) Working Set (KB) Shareable (KB) Private (KB)
svchost.exe (NetworkService) 1168 0 23,664 17,484 4,428 13,056
Image PID Hard Faults/sec Commit (KB) Working Set (KB) Shareable (KB) Private (KB)
svchost.exe (NetworkService) 1168 0 23,664 17,484 4,428 13,056
Opera now has a built in VPN for free. My computer seems to run faster with it on. Probably my memory filling issue is slowing it down more than the VPN is slowing it.
Care to suggest any ways to fix it?
This is the network part of SVCHOST not the other SVCHOST which is running fine.
The VPN is not a problem at this point, it is a helper.
Search svchost.exe memory leak. Can't go deep on this till I get on my pc