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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."
FF3 really leads the field on my computer. It clocks in at right at 0MB all the fucking time. Night, day, weekday, weekend. Always 0 fucking bytes.
Fuck FF3. CPU hogging bloatware. I'll stick with IE7 and Opera, thank you very much.
This insistence on trying to create a correlation between Microsoft and your problems on Slashdot are probably one of the reasons all but one of your eleven accounts are now posting at negative karma.
Your problem is that you continue to blame vague conspiracies by evil corporation$ instead of understanding that people find what you do here distasteful.
The twitter monologues. Click on my homepage and be amazed.
But aren't Opera fans always upset over something ?
They're either berating the world for failing to adhere to the published standards, or bashing the competition for being too trendy.
Opera exists to sell product, which is their Achilles' heel. They're trying to charge money ofr something everyone else gives away for free, and with the latest browsers they're running out of legitimate advantages to boast.
Microsoft doesn't care, and the Firefox team doesn't care either; all they need to worry about is implementing the features people want, to increase market share. Opera doesn't have that luxury.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
The fact that he only had 4 windows open is also pretty hilarious. I usually have a couple dozen windows open, and just opening Firefox 3 in that environment (not doing anything) takes about 900 MB of ram.
He makes no effort to find out whether "memory" being used is just buffered files (which can be dropped at any point) or data (which must be swapped out).
Also, Opera will use exactly as much memory as you tell it to. He makes no mention of how much memory he told Opera to use. I have a laptop with 232 MB of ram and I tell Opera to use 50MB there. It obliges.
Article is pretty fucking crap ass.
They still sell "premium support", whatever that may be. It just seems pointless for them to still be making the Windows browser when the competition runs circles around them. I'd rather see them focused on the embedded platforms, where Opera actually is leaps and bounds ahead of the pack.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
I F*CKING hate it, I just installed FF3 today and it's coming right off. No reason it's not optional
-William Shatner can be neither created nor destroyed.
Yawn, twitter stop talking to yourself, infact just stop talking.
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
Look how shitty Safari did there, looks like memory leaks there, big time.
Nyah Nyah Nyah!