This means users will get all the features that are available on Opera including an internal VPN, ad blocker, social media and IM integrations. Opera GX isn’t a completely new browser but rather the existing Opera browser with additional features implemented over it. From a subjective observation, scrolling wasn’t as smooth as experienced when there weren’t any limits. Lowering CPU usage obviously brings in some compromise in browser performance. Combined with RAM Limiter, these features will give users more control over how they want the browser to operate. It will allow users to have a better multi-tasking experience. By lowering the browser’s CPU usage, there are more resources available for other running applications. This goes on to limit browser performance by affecting scrolling speed and the animations. Opening multiple tabs while using another software will eat up almost all available memory, also leading to high CPU usage. Limiting CPU usage is also a useful feature to multi-task on low-powered laptops. But we did notice that beyond 10 tabs, revisiting the oldest tabs reloads them every time. This usually happens when the browser has been left unused for a few minutes. Essentially, to save on memory usage, Opera GX is probably unloading those sessions from the memory. The only downside to this is that after the browser is left idle for some time, the tabs have to be reloaded. And such systems take a massive hit in browsing performance since tab load times and stuttering is just beyond annoying at certain times. This will prove to be a great feature on low-memory systems that struggle to run multiple tabs. But even when I kept opening tabs, RAM usage didn’t cross the Hard Limit. After opening about 15-18 tabs, RAM usage hit 2 GB. I have a PC running on 8 GB of RAM and set the limit to only 2 GB with hard limit enabled. All of this can be done from a tab on the left sidebar that can also be pinned to monitor RAM usage in real time. However, users can also set a hard limit and the browser will ensure it doesn’t exceed it. Enabling the feature will apply a limit to how much RAM the browser uses, but the browser can cross the limit by a small margin if necessary. Based on how much system memory is present, the browser will detect and let users set a RAM usage limit. Users who don’t have the privilege of high-capacity RAM in their laptops will love the RAM Limiter feature of Opera GX.
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