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Chrome Vs. IE 8

Posted by samzenpus on from the put-em-up dept.

snydeq writes "Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 herald a new, resource-intensive era in Web browsing, one sure to shift our conception of acceptable minimum system requirements, InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy concludes in his head-to-head comparison of the recently announced multi-process, tabbed browsers. Whereas single-process browsers such as Firefox aim for lean, efficient browsing experiences, Chrome and IE 8 are all about delivering a robust platform for reliably running multiple Web apps in a tabbed format in answer to the Web's evolving needs. To do this, Chrome takes a 'purist' approach, launching multiple, discrete processes to isolate and protect each tab's contents. IE 8, on the other hand, goes hybrid, creating multiple instances of the iexplore.exe process without specifically assigning each tab to its own instance. 'Google's purist approach will ultimately prove more robust,' Kennedy argues, 'but at a cost in terms of resource consumption.' At what cost? Kennedy's comparison found Chrome 'out-bloated' IE 8, consuming an average of 267MB vs. IE 8's 211MB. This, and recent indications that IE 8 itself consumes more resources than XP, surely announce a new, very demanding era in Web-centric computing."

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  1. Re:How Ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ironic indeed.

  2. Firefox lean?? by WankersRevenge · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Calling Firefox lean is like referring to Chris Farely as an athlete. My new new "lean" memory optimized firefox 3 consumes just about three hundred megs of memory with a handful of tabs open. It's crazy. The only reason I use it is because it's a great development platform with some kick-ass extensions, but don't think for a moment I like the fact that my freakin web browser dominates my hardware. Is there a way of decreasing this footprint? Seriously ... was the Mozilla Suite ever this bad?

  3. Re:Chrome iPhone by kno3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    wtf?

  4. Re:Firefox Damage Control Is More Than Enough by Dan100 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You miss the point. Chrome is designed to enable more advanced web apps, of a nature that Firefox and Opera, as they are, will handle badly or not at all.

    Chrome's open source nature means that other browsers can also move with it, if they want. Even if they don't, Chrome is also the first browser in a long time to move the UI design forwards. That means that everyone, including "mom and pop", will be able to make full use of more advanced versions of Google Docs, PicasaWeb, Zoho Office, Facebook, etc.

    Going to be some interesting advances ahead...