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Comparing Memory Usage of Firefox 2 vs 3

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-don't-remember-nothing dept.

DaMan writes "ZDNet picks up on yesterday's Firefox 3 beta 1 review by comparing the memory usage of Firefox 2 against the latest beta. The results from one of the tests is quite interesting, after loading 12 pages and waiting 5 minutes, 2 used 103,180KB and 3 used 62,312KB. IE used 89,756KB.""

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  1. Re:And Opera by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is it just me or does it seem like 60MB or even 34MB is a LOT of memory for something that browses Web pages?

    I mean, people used to make fun of GNU Emacs, saying things like it stands for eight megabytes and constantly swapping or eventually malloc()'s all computer storage. Emacs takes somewhere around 10MB or so on a RHEL4 box, and that thing is practically an operating system. It reads mail! Firefox doesn't even read mail, and it takes 60MB. Opera reads mail, but still 34MB seems just too big, too.

    Maybe I'm just getting to be a cranky old man. Now you kids get offa my lawn!

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