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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."
therefore i do not fail
Some Opera fans may be a bit upset.
the crooks are the same as before, butt they've changed their names to protect themselves from the innocents. the lights are coming up all over now. conspiracy theorists are being vindicated. some might choose a tin umbrella to go with their hats. the fairytail is winding down now. let your conscience be yOUR guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. there are still some choices. if they do not suit you, consider the likely results of continuing to follow the corepirate nazi hypenosys story LIEn, whereas anything of relevance is replaced almost instantly with pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking propaganda or 'celebrity' trivia 'foam'. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.
http://news.google.com/?ncl=1216734813&hl=en&topic=n
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/opinion/31mon1.html?em&ex=1199336400&en=c4b5414371631707&ei=5087%0A
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/world/29amnesty.html?hp
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/02/nasa.global.warming.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/05/severe.weather.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/02/honore.preparedness/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01dowd.html?em&ex=1212638400&en=744b7cebc86723e5&ei=5087%0A
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/05/senate.iraq/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/washington/17contractor.html?hp
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/vermont.banning.bush.ap/index.html
the bleeding must be stopped before any healing can begin. jailing a couple of corepirate nazi hired goons would send a clear message to the rest of the world from US. any truthful look at the 'scorecard' would reveal that we are a society in decline/deep doo-doo, despite all of the scriptdead pr ?firm? generated drum beating & flag waving propaganda that we are constantly bombarded with. is it time to get real yet? please consider carefully ALL of yOUR other 'options'. the creators will prevail. as it has always been.
corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
(Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
by ourselves on everyday 24/7
as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption. fortunately there's an 'army' of light bringers, coming yOUR way. the little ones/innocents must/will be protected. after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit? for each of the creators' innocents harmed in any way, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available
Here's a GNU/Linux, Debian Lenny, point of comparison. You might say I'm a heavy browser user. The machine is dual core 64 bit AMD with 2GB of RAM. I have Firefox 2, Galeon and Konqueror running all for weeks with 24 days of uptime since I last did a dist-upgrade with kernel replacement.
This is not a stress test. My system remains snappy for Kontact, gimp and other work. The Safari memory problem is one of Safari or Vista, it would be nice to hear from an Apple user. Vista's low uptime is Vista's alone, regardless of what component caused it.
But not like Vista did.
Eat that, whoever modbombed me.
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.
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.
This is clear evidence that the troll group willyhill belongs to has gamed Slashdot's moderation system badly. Offtopic, flamebait, overrated and stupid would be better marks for that. It's little more than hate aimed at a single person. The GP post was nailed for pointing to an intersting GNU/Linux compairison post with Firefox, Konqueror and another browser's memory use and general performance. The Vista reference was not offtopic or "distateful" because these programs ran better under GNU/Linux than they do under Vista.
Intellectual property was the desert property of the twenth century.
You have to wonder what would happen to both Safari and IE had that test lasted more than 14 hours, but here's real use that's gone on for days with much better results under GNU/Linux.
Oh man, someone modded the above "Troll". This is much more intersting than the two AC posts about Twitter and GNU/Linux but look what the trolls did to it.
Intellectual property was the desert property of the twenth century.
Performance of Firefox 2 (64bit) available to anyone who uses Debian. No memory leaks here, Bandman, but it was myseriously downmodded.
Intellectual property was the desert property of the twenth century.
Look how shitty Safari did there, looks like memory leaks there, big time.
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