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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. Not surprising... by knarf · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It does not surprise me that IE has the lowest working storage use when idle (only one tab open) as parts of IE (eg. the rendering engine) are most likely loaded on boot because they are used elsewhere in the operating system.

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  2. Isn't IE embedded into the OS where possible by G3ckoG33k · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "IE 9 is still king of the lowest RAM usage for just one tab"

    But, I thought IE was embedded into WinXP and Win7?

    No wonder if it is.