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		olivermarks on March 11, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory... I use Opera as my primary browser because Chrome is slow, a memory hog and makes the fans on my macbook air really noisy

petee on March 11, 2018 [–]

At the core, Opera is still Chromium. Either way I use it primarily too, certainly snappier than Chrome itself

olivermarks on March 11, 2018 | [–]

I'm aware it is core Chromium but it seems to run way faster...

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