If you use Dropbox on Windows you'll be glad to know that the company will "slim" it down to make it less of a glutton for resources
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If you're a Dropbox user, you may have been surprised by the progression of the Windows app. A great platform for storing content in the cloud that little by little has been making the desktop application fatter… in features but also in resource consumption. Something they want to change in the company with an immediate update.
Dropbox every time consumes more resources as a result of the different additions that have been added over time Functions of dubious utility that will pass to history in a future update and that they are one of the reasons why the application for Windows (and also for macOS) has been increasingly heavy.
Less resource glutton
As a former Dropbox user, a platform that I abandoned in favor of Google Drive due to price and because it was more suited to my needs, this is news that does not surprise me. Dropbox is an excellent service, which I actually had a hard time leaving, but it kept adding more and more features, some of which were of very little use and I doubt anyone ever used them. I would have asked.
Dropbox has reached such a volume on desktop computers that it has become a very resource-hungry application, something that penalizes its use in equipment, especially in less powerful ones.
This is something that can be talked about in the past tense, because on the Dropbox website and when opening the application itself they announce that since January 17 the Dropbox application for desktop will only support File Explorer and the taskbar on Windows, and on macOS, the Finder and the menu bar.Many functions that used to be accessory and that used up a lot of resources disappear."
Responsible for part of this exaggerated consumption is the use of frameworks like Electron, an addition with a very exclusive use for some users and which is used to load the web content that the application uses to display the content, applications…
For those who use Dropbox, the exaggerated consumption of resources is demonstrated by the comments of Genbeta colleagues, where they count on the Dropbox beta for Apple Silicon, they have come across with a consumption of 830 MB of RAM used by an application… and that without synchronizing files. To compare, in Windows 11 and without synchronizing it is the application that consumes the most resources.
The truth is that with the change for the better, the application should return to its origins. Continue to maintain what is good about Dropbox, which is a lot, but without counting on those additions of dubious use that did nothing but consume resources.
