General discussion • Re: What product would you like to see?

Added falkon, supposedly a lightweight browser. Not really.

Code:

    VIRT    RES   SWAP   USED  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND  889.1G   1.0G   0.0    1.0G   0.0  12.2     15.19 chromium   38.6G   1.2G   0.0    1.2G   0.0  14.8     55.35 firefox  226.8G 525.6M   0.0  525.6M   0.0   6.3      8.36 epiphany  188.1G 546.0M   0.0  546.0M   0.0   6.6     10.26 falkon  645.2M  72.0M   0.0   72.0M   0.0   0.9     11.97 netsurf-gtk  102.7M  17.1M   0.0   17.1M   0.0   0.2      0.15 dillo

Given how many browsers are based on how few rendering engines, it may be hard to find any browser that really acts differently, memory wise. (Netsurf is one of the few that uses its own engine. See here.)

The reason you see more than 100 GB of virtual memory is related to a sandboxing technique. My understanding is reserving a large virtual address space is somehow useful for security.

Most of those virtual addresses are not mapped. The column labelled USED is more useful.

Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Sat Feb 07, 2026 7:53 pm

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