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Suhail Doshi<\/a> (tweet<\/a>, Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

We’re excited to finally unveil Mighty<\/a>, a faster browser that is entirely streamed from a powerful computer in the cloud.<\/p>

After 2 years of hard work<\/a>, we’ve created something that’s indistinguishable from a Google Chrome that runs at 4K, 60 frames a second, takes no more than 500 MB of RAM, and often less than 30% CPU with 50+ tabs open. This is the first step in making a new kind of computer.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

One answer is moving more client-side compute to the cloud. […] If you can move the most demanding processing, then battery life can finally improve because video decode and render times (we’re streaming video here) get more efficient with better chipsets. […] If most of the time people spend is in a browser and most of the processing and system resources are offloaded, their computer won’t feel slow as apps become more demanding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This sounds like an amazing technical achievement, if it works as described, yet also an indictment<\/a> of the modern hardware\/software stack. Personally, I mostly work in native apps and don’t find the Web unacceptably slow, certainly not to the point of wanting to rent<\/a> a VM in the cloud or give a company all my data<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n