Android Web Browser with low resource usage

Zangetsu

I am the master of my Fate.
Which browser uses less RAM and battery ?
Been using Chrome for a long time but it seems it is consuming more RAM and Battery.

I am OK with RAM as now a days phones have 6 to 8GB of RAM. My main concern is battery usage.

When I checked App battery usage I found that Chrome was on Top with 69% of battery usage.

Here is the summary for Chrome:
Foreground Active Time: 41 min
Background Active Time: 12h 20 min
Power consumed: 2003 mAh
 

sling-shot

Wise Old Owl
Chrome is like the IE of Microsoft. It is probably not only just a stand alone browser at this point. It serves as webview backend or something. Many Google apps probably need it too. I had disabled Chrome once and it caused the Play Store to think something is out of date and needs updating always (probably WebView).

Although I am an exclusive Firefox user, now I keep Chrome enabled just to avoid irritations like this.

There is not much real choice among browsers these days unfortunately.
 
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Zangetsu

Zangetsu

I am the master of my Fate.
Chome is installed as System App. Hence I cannot remove it without root. No option to uninstall and no option to restrict background services.
 

Æsoteric Positron

I AM GROOT (and so are you)
Chome is installed as System App. Hence I cannot remove it without root. No option to uninstall and no option to restrict background services.
You can easily uninstall chrome using adb without root. This app makes the process visual Releases · 0x192/universal-android-debloater
 

TigerKing

Wise Old Owl
I don't need it. Somehow it is active in background for long hours.
Settings > Apps > Chrome > Battery > Select Restricted.
Done.
Turn discover off in home page.

Do this for every app which keeps running in background.
Truecaller, Facebook, etc.
 
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