If the purpose of a web browser is to load, view, and interact with the largest percentage of websites on the internet, then the best web browser in the world is Google Chrome, which can handle just about anything you throw at it. But if you like opening more than a couple tabs at once, Google Chrome is not the browser for you.Over the last few years, I have grown endlessly frustrated with Chrome's resource management, especially on MacOS. Admittedly, I open too many tabs, but I'd wager that a lot of you do, too. With Chrome, my computer crawls to complete unusability multiple times a day. After one too many times of having to go into Activity Monitor to find that one single Chrome tab is using several gigs of RAM, I decided enough was enough.I switched to Opera, a browser I had previously thought was only for contrarians.
This, after previous dalliances with Safari and Firefox left me frustrated. Chrome has a built-in advantage, because web developers optimize their pages for the most popular browser (Chrome!). And so as Chrome gets more popular, its compatibility continues to get better while Safari's and Firefox's would suffer (at least in theory). Safari uses an engine known as WebKit and Firefox uses Gecko, while Chrome is built on an engine called Blink, which is used in all Chromium-based browsers (Chromium is a fully featured, open source browser that served as the backbone for Chrome).Continue reading on Motherboard.