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DuckDuckGo failed me today (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have been very happy with DuckDuckGo, and it has helped me break free of routines that I did not feel safe with. Especially the small flame icon that would clear all history, cookies and cache from websites that are not "fireproofed" was great!

But today I had to do a quick example on Tinkercad (3D browser design tool) and it was so slow! I thought that my PC maybe was busy doing something (yeah its an older PC but not THAT old), but when I open the same page on my now parked Opera browser, everything went smoothly.

I am ok with using Opera, or any other browser for 3D work, as I don't really do all that much of it, but I just feel gutted to find out that my now favorite browser sucks so bad at something, not to mention the Microsoft Edge processes when that is the last of any browser that I would choose to use

EDIT: I found out that this was due to hardware acceleration was off, on my DuckDuckGo browser. I had turned it off, because the fonts on websites looked blurry when it was on. The solution was to turn off antialising on the Nvidia control panel, and restart the PC. It is now working well!

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does this comparison actually take into account whether you are using the same tabs on both browsers and keeping them in the same state?

I've noticed, for example, that in chromium, I can permanently increase CPU usage just by opening a console in a tab and leaving it alone in the background, even if the tab itself is doing nothing.

If both browsers have the exact same number of tabs open, I would question why one has around 40 processes and one has around 20. That number should correspond roughly to the number of tabs/extensions you have open.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the concern. At the end of the post I have added an update to this. It turns out that I had turned off hardware acceleration on the DDG browser and that was the reason it was tapping on my CPU instead

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I'm glad to hear you figured it out. I was also curious about tab suspension, a feature that's built into Chrome and similar browsers, but it sounds like you figured out the biggest issue