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Mustang Browser for Windows (chromium based)
MilesAhead:
Does this answer your question?
-Deozaan
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Have you tried any of the switches that cut down on the number of instances? I am curious if it would hinder performance a great deal. I notice in Mustang it almost seems like the setting not to load a tab until active is enabled. There is no such setting in options but maybe there is something set under the covers by the programmer who put it together. Even when I set New Tab Fast Dial to not use a background image there is a second hesitation before the page loads. Mustang is not blazingly fast. But it does get off the dime faster than Firefox or Cyberfox.
Deozaan:
I am unaware of any such switches.
MilesAhead:
I am unaware of any such switches.
-Deozaan (June 23, 2015, 05:43 PM)
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It seems in google chrome it only gives you -process-per-site and -process-per-tab
chromium used to have a --renderer-process-limit=n switch. Searching now I don't find it. Version numbers climb fast these days. :)
Although I tried it in chrome myself and it seemed to work. Maybe it is still in there but no longer documented?
When I set n to 4 and had 8 to 10 tabs open I rarely got more than a dozen exe instances. Starting to a blank page was typically 4 instances.
Innuendo:
So, to reference the OP, what makes this Chromium variant different than the umpteen other Chromium variants out there?
MilesAhead:
So, to reference the OP, what makes this Chromium variant different than the umpteen other Chromium variants out there?
-Innuendo (June 27, 2015, 08:22 AM)
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The main feature is some kind of limitation on the number of exe instances spawned. I don't know exactly how it is implemented. One reason it makes a difference how the limitation is achieved is it can be problematic when launching a chromium via file association. I can add the switch to the shortcut target line to limit the number of rendering instances. But unless I have the browser open all the time to catch html file launches in a new tab, then one has to mess around adding the switch to the Registry entries. I did it with chromium back when I was playing with the snapshots. But I tried to do it with chrome portable from portableapps.com and I could not figure it out.
The other difference is the last time I tried chromium it did not show any flash video out of the box. Mustang does. It is a compromise. Pretty fast loading off the disk. Not super snappy loading tabs. Not for everyone. I just kind of lie the feel of it. :)
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