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Chrome Should Get 'Extremely Fast' at Loading a Whole Lot of Web Pages (cnet.com)
Chrome is going to get a big speed boost -- at least for web pages you've recently visited. CNET: With a feature called bfcache -- backward-forward cache -- Google's web browser will store a website's state as you navigate to a new page. If you then go back to that page, Chrome will reconstitute it rapidly instead of having to reconstruct it from scratch. Then, if you retrace your steps forward again, Chrome will likewise rapidly pull that web page out of its memory cache. The speed boost doesn't help when visiting new websites. But this kind of navigation is very common: Going back accounts for 19 percent of pages viewed on Chrome for Android and 10 percent on Chrome for personal computers, Google said. With bfcache, that becomes "extremely fast."
Firefox does throttle CPU in background tabs. For a very long time APIs like setTimeout have been throttled aggressively.
There has been quite recent work on using OS APIs to reduce the priority of processes running background tabs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
No. The Pi-hole is a DNS blackhole for ads, beacons, and trackers. Anything in the subscription list is simply blackholed from being called to my network. This does wonders for bandwidth, and every device that connects to my network is protected. Raspberry Pi 3B+, case, 32GB SD card, Ethernet cable, and about an hour of time. Best thing I've done lately (almost a year ago) for my network. I run Raspbian. I bought the complete Cana Kit on Amazon for like $69.
I back this up.
Pi-Hole regularly blocks between 60 - 80% of my internet traffic with daily browsing, and down to about 40 - 50% when I'm working.
It definitely increases browsing speed, page performance, resource usage, etc
Opera Presto (which is to say, versions 7 through 12) had this years ago, though the early versions didn't handle dynamic pages well. It was one of their stronger features, and when they did change it most people wanted the option to put it back the way it was. It doesn't do anything for javascript/HTML benchmarks as it only deals with pages you've seen before, but it helps immensely on workflow.
,,, until you (hopefully) find what you want. With this RAM cache (as Opera called it), returning to the results page is as fast as if you'd just switched tabs, so you don't need to open the links in new tabs (and thus don't use as much memory and CPU).
Best example, you do a search and get a results page, then have to look at the pages in the results to see if they are what you're looking for. So you load one page, then go back to the results page, then load the next