Aside says its AI browser is now faster, lighter, and better at keeping up with Chromium

Aside has shipped another update for its AI browser, and this one is less about flashy new tricks and more about making the browser feel usable day to day.

The team says it spent the week rewriting parts of the browser core to cut CPU, GPU, and RAM usage. In simpler terms, Aside should now feel faster, run lighter, and put less pressure on your machine.

That matters because my biggest complaint with the browser so far was not the idea behind it. It was the lag.

When I first tried Aside, I liked the direction it was taking. It felt closer to what an AI browser should be than Comet or Dia did in my testing. But it also made my MacBook Air M2 warm up, and the browser felt a bit too sluggish to keep open all day.

This update does seem to improve that. I am actually using Aside to draft this post, partly to test the claim, and I have to admit it feels significantly faster than it did a couple of weeks ago. Switching between tabs is smoother, the interface feels less heavy, and the browser no longer gives me that immediate feeling that my laptop is about to start working overtime.

The official changelog also backs this up as version 1.0.706.1 is said to fix an issue where the browser could cause CPU spikes and keep triggering the GPU or macOS WindowServer. The team also says pinned tabs no longer use too much memory after an earlier implementation caused abnormal memory use because of Chromium’s pinned tab behavior.

There are other fixes too. Aside says Google OAuth sign-ins should stop logging out too often, previous sessions now restore when launching the browser, and the app no longer opens as a fresh window by default. The update also adds Auto PiP, a non-scroll mode for horizontal tabs, and moves the browser from Chromium 149.0.7827.197 to 150.0.7871.47.

This last part is yet another thing that the team behind the browser is boasting about.

Jun, one of Aside’s co-founders, claimed on X that the five-person team is following Chromium upstream updates faster than Perplexity, Dia, or Atlas. That might not sound like a huge deal, but when you take the bigger picture into account, it makes it noteworthy. Browsers need regular Chromium updates, not just for features, but also for security and long-term stability.

We at PiunikaWeb have recently highlighted many Chromium patches that fix vulnerabilities that were being exploited in the wild. So it’s crucial to keep your browsers up to date with the latest safeguards.

Still, Aside is not magically perfect now. I am still noticing a little stutter here and there, and Activity Monitor still shows several Aside-related processes using memory in the background. For example, here’s a screenshot of the Activity Monitor when I had just two tabs open (Trello and X).

So yes, it feels much better, but there is clearly still room to clean things up further.

That said, this is still a good sign. Aside’s team is moving quickly, listening to complaints, and fixing the boring performance stuff that actually decides whether people keep using a browser after the hype fades.

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