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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.
Firefox...as root...REALLY?!
You should be ashamed.
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.
*in the voice of Michael Westen*
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