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nosh:
I did a slightly more thorough resource utilization comparison betw. Feeddemon & Greatnews.
The graphs are over a span of around 10 minutes. I had both apps minimized and they both sat silent for a while, consuming next to nothing. Then I gave them the 'Retrieve all feeds' command from the system tray.

Lightweight alternatives to FeedDemon
FeedDemon jumped to around 23% CPU usage, then seemed to settle down a little and then surprisingly jumped to over 40% & held it there for several minutes... it's still consuming >40% CPU as I type this. Notice the tiny bump, so easy to miss,  on the GreatNews CPU utilization graph, it peaked to less than 5% and kept it there for the 10 seconds or so that it took it to retrieve the feeds settling back to 0% once it was done.

I don't know exactly what FeedDemon is doing after it retrieves the feeds - looks almost like a bug to me. The RAM consumption really doesn't matter so much but when a single app holds on to nearly 1/2 my CPU power and doesn't let go it's definitely a problem. I've used Process Explorer to run these tests and am using FeedDemon v2.1.0.10

Could somebody please replicate these tests & confirm or disprove these results?

urlwolf:
Slightly off topic: I have been a fan of Opera for many years, but recently defected in favour of FireFox - which I loved, and spent a month customising until I had it just the way I wanted it... then out of curiosity went back to look at Opera one afternoon to discover that it did everything my well tuned FF install did (and more) pretty much straight out of the box - plus it is so much quicker, and seems more stable too.
-Ampa (March 27, 2007, 04:37 PM)
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This is almost exactly my experience too.
I paid for opera v.5 and kept it as my main browser up to version 9, tried FF for a month, hunted for extensions, and then went back to Opera.

Opera is probably THE best application I have ever seen.

The only thing I miss is a del.icio.us taskbar for better del.icio.us integration (using standard bookmarks seems just silly).


BTW, If you haven't experimented with Opera widgets, I'd suggest you to do so. They may replace 2-3 applications that run in your taskbar already. For me it was a clock bar, a 24 hr timer, a weather program, and some other time estimation gadgets. Total RAM saved: ~40 mb. (plus freed space in the taskbar!)

iphigenie:
I must say I use Opera for my feeds. I have about 100 or so...
I keep some feed posts for reference and I find it nice that the global mail search will get feed entries and newsgroup posts too.

Nod5:
I noticed RSSOwl version 2.0 is in development. They have a very informative five part flash demo (made in wink) up at http://boreal.rssowl.org/ . Some really interesting new features have been added (group tagging, smart saved searches as filters and much more). I think RSSOwl will be a really strong competitor to GreatNews in the freeware slot. I'm not sure how it compares with GreatNews resource wise though, since it uses Java.

iphigenie:
opera has starting mixing up my feeds / i.e. the posts from one feed also appear on another.

This is obviously not good(TM)

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