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Real-World Firefox 3 Memory Usage Leads the Field

Posted by kdawson on from the free-what-you-alloc dept.

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:Contrived benchmarks? Try AMD... by Vancorps · · Score: 1, Redundant

    huh? Sounds like your rig is seriously messed up, my Phenom box is on par with these findings.

  2. Re:Wonder what Firefox 2 looked like ... That's by davidsyes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    When u bust a CAP or a capLET in PC-Illin's digital ass...

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