so seems like firefox quantum is much better? i wonder when will be included in debian... as we can probably switch to it by default
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they will probably never do so,
because of so called "proprietary content" or something like this...
- it has to do with the open source idea
And so I installed by myself, it works well. 
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I just found this on google, made by an old user (actually unactive I think) of Elive
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Sweet! Looks good in my Firefox 69 Quantum!
We should surely use one of those themes in the FF that is installed by Elive.
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The today's browser's bloat is just crazy... it breaks entirely the Elive goodnesses for the new versions!
In other words: how much RAM it takes you to use a web browser today's ?
I'm just running my laptop with Elive 3.0, 11 tabs opened in chrome, and only consumes 650 MB of RAM, almost a half of one GB 
It is madness ........ they are so bloated and extensive that they are almost an OS in themselves. 
and even then they are too heavy.
I don't have ChromeOs but how much RAM does that use with the browser in full use?
Maybe a different/lighter browser for default should be considered .... and other browsers like FF, chromium and Opera "at your own risk".
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they doesn't exist! 
only old versions like in topaz
Well FF was forked because Netscape Navigator got too heavy/bloated ..... who knows.
Maybe @Rebel450 can tell us what FF in OsX uses as RAM. That has "webkit" as renderer.
Well, I always try them, in this way:
run htop, and run each browser with 1 search first, close all of them, then:
- see how much ram is used in htop without them loaded
- open browser-1, with one tab, see how much the RAM is increased
- open browser-1, with 10 tabs opened, see how much ram is used
- loop and compare with other browsers
this was an old result: ELIVE Linux - Another very interesting research, this is a... | Facebook
Vivaldi it works well
Its my browser of choice at the moment. Appears to me faster than most.
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Well, I could - but it's not comparable.
I use Quantum on Mint Ci ( imo more comparable)
it uses by an average usage around 380 MB with swap enabled....
( To remind you - applications behavior changes with virtual memory on/off 
)
Ahm..... which one now 
...
Anyways,
a warm welcome to our community 
Sorry. Vivaldi
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I never tried it, what would you consider the Pros / advantages in it's features ?
For now I am using Brave.
As a good solution for these ram-eating-monsters I have recently installed the addon "OneTab", and im very happy with it
basically puts all your tabs in a created page as a links list, so you can access to them -when- you need, and you can work from the only needed opened ones each time, you can trigger in any moment a "park my tabs" thing
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Lately I've found that FF does not keep all the tabs "alive". Once I return to a tab, I notice it reloads it ...... albeit FF still needs a good 400+ Mb of RAM...depending on the site visited.
Seriously? the last time i tried firrefox it was slower and/or more memory consuming than chrome 
maybe i didn't waited enough to have these tabs automatically freed
but if firefox is a (much?) better option that chrome, well...
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Something @yoda should give a spin !!!!
