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Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al.
An anonymous reader writes "This experiment graphs the memory usage of Chrome and Firefox 3.5 (along with Safari and Opera) over a series of 150 Web page loads using an automated script. Firefox 3.5 shows the lowest memory usage in all categories, including average memory usage, maximum memory usage, and final memory usage. Chrome uses over 1 GB of memory due to its process architecture. Safari 4 and Opera show memory usage degradation over time, while Chrome and Firefox 3.5 are more reliable in freeing memory to the OS." IE 8 was not included "because the author could not find a way to prevent it from opening a new window on each invocation of the command."
I couldn't find a way to keep it from sucking so forcefully all the air was evacuated from my office every time it was run.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
Well, and here's mine, after half a day of heavy usage:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8745 root 20 0 267m 106m 22m S 9.3 10.6 2:38.87 firefox-bin
5242 root 19 -1 334m 24m 8540 S 1.3 2.4 0:36.26 X
5405 root 20 0 37520 11m 8408 S 0.0 1.1 0:01.16 xfdesktop
5400 root 20 0 19468 10m 6964 S 0.0 1.0 0:02.72 xfce4-panel
5398 root 20 0 18600 9272 6696 S 0.0 0.9 0:00.80 xfwm4
Firefox...as root...REALLY?!
You should be ashamed.
When using more than 10 tabs or so, my memory usage is...
Yes, I notice when I have a huge number of tabs open with a mixture of Flash and other multi-media running, my browser slows down too. Wonder why that is...
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Well of course, he needs to add some lens flare to the porn. Not everyone has simple fetishes, some people really have to work for it.
http://CryoLANparty.com/ A lan I'm staff on!
In fact, you can get Firefox to work the quickest by selecting "File" - "Work Offline." Pretty secure, too.
I'm not a Firefox user... does it really show ass icons?
Finally the Windows users are using Linux?
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FF3 is plenty good enough for me to thoroughly enjoy an episode of 'Burn Notice' on Hulu just now on that very computer.
Wow! FF3 must be a fantastic piece of software if it can make Burn Notice watchable.
Firefox mem usage is 271,480 MB
Wait, why are you running firefox on a supercomputer?
Because that's the only computer it will run on.
*in the voice of Michael Westen*
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You should just declare bankruptcy and start over. Especially if the number is still growing, rather than shrinking some of the time.
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