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Real-World Firefox 3 Memory Usage Leads the Field

An anonymous reader writes "The author developed a program to snapshot memory usage per process every 3 seconds on Windows. Using this he recorded 3 hours of memory usage for five different browsers under real-world usage scenarios: Safari 3.1, Firefox 3, Flock 1.2 (a browser based on Firefox 2), Opera 9.5, and Internet Explorer 8. A million data points indicate that Firefox 3 has a surprising advantage over the other browsers tested. These are real-world tests and not contrived benchmarks."

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  1. Re:this is not the first post by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You failed at failing, I applaud your skillz.

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  2. Re:Wonder what Firefox 2 looked like ... by xmas2003 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    LOL - mod parent +99 ... ;-)

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  3. Re:that's insighful? by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shut up, twitter.

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  4. Re:that's insighful? by Crazyswedishguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's sad is that the more Twitter posts, the more sympathy I have for Vista. (although I've never used it)

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  5. Re:Attention Mods by dshadowwolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no, that's "wllly hlll" - no "I's" in it, just "L's"

  6. Re:that's insighful? by mhall119 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I second that. We need a "-1 Nobody cares that you hate twitter" mod.

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  7. Re:Cue real world answer. by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny because i currently use ubuntu hardy, which has sprung a pretty nasty memory leak in the NetworkManager, but it doesn't affect my uptime.

    anyway mr not twitter, how come you know so much about where twitter does/doesn't work? I mean I now have reason to belive he works at MS and is a disgruntled ms-sql coder, but you were months ahead of the game with that comment.

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  8. At Last! by mangu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, finally I found someone here in /. that understands how the AMD marketroids calculate their numbers...


    There are at least four sacred cows here: AMD, Apple, Java, and Ruby, that no one can criticize, lest they lose mod points. That's why I always criticize them. Got karma to spare, so let's make those dumbasses to waste their modpoints, right? Otherwise, they might downmod some really important post...