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."

Comments

Re:how is his memory usage that low?

[ion.simon.c]

Heh.

I have a Panasonic CF-30 with 4Gb of RAM installed that runs Gentoo Linux (2.6.29-tuxonice-r3 at the time of this writing).
I don't notice any FFox slowdowns until I hit ~300 tabs. At ~500, I get a fair amount delayed input.

Not included IE8 because of the inconvenient truth

[Computershack]

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."

Really? So the "Open links from other programs in" and then choosing either a new tab in the same window or the same tab doesn't exist then? Oh that's right, it does - right under Tools, Internet Options, Tabs.
So either the author is fucking useless or he's lying as he knows the result shows IE winning.