Performance issues in Nyxt

[FrancoBujakiewicz]

Hello guys. There's a way to configure Nyxt for more performance? I will take the following points:

• The main issue I have: Prompt usually freezes the browser for a moment when typing, generally because the list it shows.
• WebKit is actually the only option as engine? Nyxt crashes when interacting with some pages (Just happened me with Claude AI page, but I bet occurs in others). I'm just supposing the engine is the issue.
• In Qutebrowser I set some configuration to save RAM:

c.qt.args += [
   '--disk-cache-size=52428800',
   '--disable-gpu',
   '--disable-gpu-compositing',
   '--disable-software-rasterizer',
   '--js-flags=--max-old-space-size=512',
   '--disable-features=AudioServiceOutOfProcess, Prerender2',
   '--disable-background-networking',
   '--disable-breakpad',
   '--disable-print-preview',
   '--disable-speech-api',
   '--disable-gpu-memory-buffer-video-frames',
   '--max-active-webgl-contexts=1',
]
c.content.autoplay = False
c.content.prefers_reduced_motion = True
c.content.plugins = False
c.content.webgl = False
c.content.blocking.enabled = True
c.content.blocking.method = 'both'
c.content.blocking.hosts.lists = [ 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts', ]
c.content.blocking.adblock.lists = [
   'https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt',
   'https://easylist.to/easylist/easyprivacy.txt',
]

I could something similar for Nyxt for both RAM and performance?

• I saw multiple WebKitWebProces are accumulated (I'm in Linux). All they are needed or are just accumulated? I can limit they to single one and when the browser is closed kill the process?

• And finally, a minor issue: I'm using vi hinting type, it has some delay to map the elements to letters.

I appreciate all possible solutions.

[jmercouris]

WebKit is not the only option. If you see the documentation you'll note that it can be built with webengine. If you are using a 3.X series version of Nyxt, then webkit is the only option. The newest version of Nyxt will come with webengine by default.

[FrancoBujakiewicz]

I will wait for Nyxt 4 for this issue