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Firefox Notably Improved In Tom's Hardware's Latest Browser Showdown

Posted by timothy on from the today-on-chrome-tomorrow-who-knows dept.

Billly Gates writes "Tom's Hardware did another benchmark showdown, since several releases of both Firefox and Chrome came out since their last one. Did Mozilla clean up its act and listen to its users? The test results are listed here. Firefox 13.01 uses the least amount of RAM with 40 tabs opened, while Chrome uses the highest (surprisingly). Overall, Firefox scored medium for memory efficiency, which measures RAM released after tabs are closed. Also surprising: IE 9 is still king of the lowest RAM usage for just one tab. Bear in mind that these tests were benchmarked in Windows 7. Windows XP and Linux users will have different results, due to differences in memory management. It is too bad IE 10, which is almost finished, wasn't available to benchmark." Safari and Opera are also along for the fight.

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  1. Performance improvements by jaak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Interestingly enough, the Tom's Hardware pages-per-article benchmark shows that Firefox can now handle an article spread over twice as many pages as before!

  2. 40 tabs? by trancemission · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who in the name of satan has 40 tabs open?!?

    *checks tabs*

    Guilty as charged m'lord..........

  3. Re:RAM Usage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    The job being, providing your browsing habits to google in the most efficient way possible.

  4. Re:who gives a fuck by tsa · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because many /. geeks are poor people?

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