If you are a Dropbox user, you may have been surprised by the progress of the application for Windows. A great platform to store content in the cloud that little by little has been fattening the desktop application… in performance but also in resource consumption. Something they want to change in the company with an immediate update.
dropbox every time it consumes more resources as a result of the different additions that it has added over time. Functions of doubtful utility that will go down in history in an upcoming update and that are one of the reasons why the application for Windows (and also for macOS) has been increasingly heavy.
Less gluttonous in resources
As a former user of Dropbox, a platform that I abandoned in favor of Google Drive due to price and because it is more suited to my needs, this is news that does not surprise me. dropbox is an excellent service, which in fact cost me to leave, but it was adding more and more features, some of which were of very little use and I doubt anyone would have asked for them.
Such volume has come to have Dropbox on desktop computers, which it has become a very gluttonous application in resources, something that penalizes its use in equipment, especially in less powerful ones.
This is something that can be talked about in the past, 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 Taskbar on Windows“, and in the case of macOS, “the Finder and the menu bar”. Many functions that passed for being accessory and that consumed enough resources disappear.
“Starting January 17, 2022, the Dropbox desktop app will only support File Explorer and the taskbar on Windows, and Finder and the menu bar on Mac.”
Responsible for part of this exaggerated consumption is the use of frameworks such as Electron, an addition with a very exclusive use for some users and that serves 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 how Genbeta colleagues comment, where they have the Dropbox beta for Apple Silicon, have run into a consumption of 830 MB of RAM used by an application… and that without synchronizing files. To compare, in Windows 11 and without being synchronized, 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 the good of Dropbox, which is a lot, but without having those additions of dubious utility that did nothing but consume resources.