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IE8 Beta 2 Fatter Than Firefox and XP
snydeq writes "Consuming twice as much RAM as Firefox and saturating the CPU with nearly six times as many execution threads, Microsoft's latest beta release of Internet Explorer 8 is in fact more demanding on your PC than Windows XP itself, research firm Devil Mountain Software found in performance tests. According to the firm, which operates a community-based testing network, IE8 Beta 2 consumed 380MB of RAM and spawned 171 concurrent threads during a multi-tab browsing test of popular Web destinations. InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy speculates that Microsoft may be designing IE8 for the multicore future. But until your machine sports four or eight discrete processing cores, IE8 will remain 'porcine,' Devil Mountain's Craig Barth says."
Firefox is a bloated pig. Why not compare it to Opera?
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Yeah, because, you know--testing In-House is sooo last century, and making sure that your code is lean and efficient from the start is hard.
Moran.
I guess nobody here has yet figured out what "beta" means.
OMG!!! Call the press!!! A beta build is oversized, and... gasp!!!... has some bugs too!!!
It's easy to understand the mistake, however- Slashdot is filled with people who only beta quality software which will never be ready for prime time. It's free for a reason...
Yes, but do you have 300 greasemonkey scripts and 18 plugins installed to effectively change every possible option in Firefox to act differently, including things that weren't meant to be changed?
People using IE with a ton of spyware installed have about the same kind of browser as the Firefox users complaining about memory usage.
Except with Firefox, they willingly bloat their browser with tons of useless crap because it makes it 'better' and then bitch about how its not better for some other reason.
Most FF users I know say 'Firefox is leaner and faster than IE' and then they load it down with all sorts of crap 90% of which is pointless and then they complain about how its slower and a memory hog. And then when they come over and see me testing something in IE, they ask why the page loads so fast on my testbed machines ...
Firefox straight off the build farm is great, not as thrifty as Opera with memory, but for a browser it does a fine job.
Firefox after 18 anti-flash, anti-ads, anti-establishment plugins, and a bunch of Greasemonkey scripts to make sure the plugins did their job because the user in question has nothing better to do than figure out how to change their browser to 'suit their preferences' all day ... Now its a slow bloated POS.
Yet ... FF is the one who gets blamed, not the idots who screw it up. So why do we blame the user if they are using IE and the browser if they are using FF? In both cases, 99 times out of a hundred, the problems shown can be avoided by the user with little effort. IE users screw their browser by accident/ignorance. FF users screw their browser intentionally.
The problem with FF memory usage is the same as IE and spyware. FF is now pretty much mainstream. It now has plenty of stupid users to screw it up and then complain about it. Slashdot users are no excemption.
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Of course they have. The FUD storm is just getting underway a bit early this time.
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I would mod you funny if I had mod points/hadn't already posted here. I find it best to ignore the mods, I'd say 80% of the time they are totally retarded.