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Firefox VS. Google Chrome
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10-19-2011, 02:21 PM,
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RE: Firefox VS. Google Chrome
Still being a loyal Firefox user... Read my signature. :D Still because its tons of extensions... Don't wish to repeat all the things again... Well, just a few comments about the new Firefox 7: I was experiencing serious memory leaks beforehand. After I read a page with many images (like The Big Picture of Boston.com) the memory usage of Firefox would climb to 800MB, and even worse, it never drops. After I upgraded to Firefox 7 and disabled a few extensions, the problem disappeared. I guess it was disabling extensions that helped, but Firefox 7 indeed uses less memory. Now the average memory usage is 280MB, the peak usage is 400MB, and I almost never run out of physical memory (933MB) anymore. Well, beware that I have 14 enabled extensions, and 13 disabled ones.
As for Chromium, it's probably good but it seems to use an awful lot of memory. Hmm, at least on Gentoo it seems so, maybe because of the massive amount of bundled libraries Chromium comes with. Chromium seems to include forked versions of WebKit, expat, ffmpeg, hunspell, libjingle, libvpx, mesa, npapi, protobuf, skia, sqlite, yasm, and speex... And, I could not stop cursing Chromium for upgrading every 3 days and taking 2 hours to compile every time on my computer. :D By the way, as a user who never met a frozen Firefox (and a user who almost never use Windows...), well...
Gentoo Linux User (w/ fvwm) / Loyal Firefox User / Owner of a Stupid Old Computer - My PGP Public Key
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. -- Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), John Donn |
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