browser memory usuage

T

tiamat

Banned
Joined
Jan 13, 2009
Messages
20
Reaction score
0
Location
hades
I traditionally use Firefox and have Firefox3.0.5.

While using it, I thought it was sucking a bit of ram so I did an experiment. I rebooted my computer (windows xp sp3).

I started FIrefox and went to Google and the same with Chrome and Internet Explorer 7.

Firefox +/- 105Mb
IE +/- 40Mb
Chrome +/- 10Mb

My Firefox has one add-in which i doubt would make a difference but interesting to see a comparison on my computer vs what has been said on other websites. Am I doing something wrong?
 
Firefox is historically a bit of a memory pig. If it's any consolation, version 2 was a lot worse.

The only thing stopping me from using Chome, is the lack of Adblock Plus. Hopefully they get plugs-ins working soon.
 
Yeah Firefox sucks up memory. It's also processor-intensive. But what can you do, it's the best there is right now.
 
Firefox does as far as I understand the "sandbox" thing, where every tab you have open it loads another instance of the firefox engine so that if one tab crashes the whole browser does not go down.

Due to this fact ff can use a lot of memory if you have lots of tabs open.
 
FireFox is also abit on the slow side....but it has many great features and the added download manager system is also a great feature.
 
Veroland said:
Firefox does as far as I understand the "sandbox" thing, where every tab you have open it loads another instance of the firefox engine so that if one tab crashes the whole browser does not go down.
Click to expand...

I disagree with ur statement since i'v been using FF3 for quite a while now and whenever a tab crashes the whole browser closes and a previous session has to be restored !
 
Veroland said:
Firefox does as far as I understand the "sandbox" thing, where every tab you have open it loads another instance of the firefox engine so that if one tab crashes the whole browser does not go down.

Due to this fact ff can use a lot of memory if you have lots of tabs open.
Click to expand...
This is incorrect. Google Chrome is the only browser so far to implement sandboxing (if there is such a word) in their tabs. It's one of their browser innovations and makes it unique in the world of browsers, though I won't be surprised if the other browsers follow suite...
 
Yeah. I noticed how Chrome has a separate process for every tab that has been opened. I don't really use IE that much, so not sure how it adds up. But fire fox in my opinion is becoming bloatware fast.

I hope it is resolved in v4 if there will be such a thing.

Plugin in support for Chrome will be awesome. While I am here does anyone know how to change Chrome's default blue to another colour perhaps?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X