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Opera Launches Opera GX, World's First Gaming Browser (zdnet.com) 56

Opera Software, the company behind the Opera browser, today launched a custom version of its browser dedicated to online gamers and streamers on Windows platform. From a report: Named Opera GX, the browser comes with dedicated features that let users limit the browser's access to computer resources such as CPU (processor) and RAM (memory). The idea is to provide gamers with a way to navigate the web while leaving resources available for games or streaming applications that the gamer might also be running at the same time. "Running a game might require a lot of effort from your machine. Even more so if you are streaming while you play," said Maciej Kocemba, product director of Opera GX. "Before Opera GX, gamers often shut down their browsers to not slow down their gaming experience. We came up with the GX Control feature to make people's games run more smoothly without requiring them to compromise on what they do on the Web." Besides the GX Control Panel that lets users manage CPU and RAM usage limits, Opera GX also comes with Twitch integration, meaning users can log into their Twitch accounts via the browser's sidebar.
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  • I don't really get why companies are focusing on the incremental crap. Seriously the best part of Windows 10's Gaming mode is that it shelves notifications, the half a FPS extra performance ultimately does nothing.

    Likewise here. What's the target market for a browser? When someone is using the internet and gaming at the same time I highly doubt they are in the middle of a competitive tournament, and they are very unlikely to be using some website with a running bitcoin miner or otherwise resource intensive

  • I play FO4 only lightly modded and even with 16GB I have only enough RAM for FO4 or Pale Moon at one time, not both. I don't plan to spend any more money on this PC (It's "old" now, with its FX-8350) so for now it just needs to do its job. It would be nice to have a low memory browser I could use for nexusmods and the wiki.

    • by Shinobi ( 19308 )

      I find that the biggest blame with that is various Google sites, such as Youtube. They inevitably use about 50% more RAM than the same site does in Chromium based browsers, and that's with using ad blockers.

      • The biggest two blames are anything loading a ton of JavaScript (especially telemetry scripts, as opposed to ads) and HTML5 video, which every knucklehead webdev wants to preload in the background before the site has even finished loading, and you can get why this is stupid when they also have HTML5 video ads on top of whatever video it is they are loading in their main page. It's amazing how much performance gain you get from blocking both.

    • Given how FO4 runs just fine on 8GB of RAM I imagine you have something seriously wrong with FO4 ... or your browser ... or both.

      • I have about 63 mods loaded right now. I had 70-odd but I unloaded some. I'm skewing it around from the mods I used in SP to a war footing. In the process I've had some repeatable, clearly memory exhaustion-related crashes which were remedied by unloading the browser.

        • That's because FO4 has a rather crappy garbage-collection and memory alloc/dealloc mechanism. For some unknown reason, they reverted to the one used for the engine in Oblivion and FO3 instead of using the one in Skyrim. FO76 uses the one in SkyrimSE that was updated from the Skyrim codepath. My guess is that whomever was working on that part of the game was pulling from an older repository which they then patched, which we've seen them do in FO76, hence the reversion bugs every other patch.

          • That makes sense. I need a FO4-Skyrim instead of a FO4-76. I used to be a scavver like you, but then I took a missile to the knee

  • Giving the thing on the other side of the web greater access to your hardware while browsing ... what could go wrong?
  • https://www.everquest2.com/new... [everquest2.com]

    https://eq2.fandom.com/wiki/Up... [fandom.com]

    February 28th, 2007 Sony Online Entertainment added an embedded web browser to Everquest II.
  • You can also just do a script to lower the process priority of your browser.

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