However i hate, when on my p4 mini-laptop opera and firefox (both) try to make salad out from my disk cache, because they both cant fit into memory (512mb). I have moved away from using gmail on the browser as it uses a lot of RAM. I wish there was a way to compartmentalize safari so I didn't have to use two different browsers in order to use multiple google accounts at the same time. I have i7 6gb system, and i DO NOT CARE if chrome eats 1 or 2gbs – i bought my ram to be used. Including Firefox and Safari open at the same time as well as other applications. not 1gb idle ram consumption when there are 5gb more to go
I did install Firefox just now to compare really quick.
problem is, when they do expand and there is no memory left. Which do you guys use I just got my first Mac so for now Im content with Safari until I see any problems.
apps are free to expand in it if they feel like doing so. if it is free, it is there to be used up. Apple Safari follows with 19.37, Mozilla Firefox at 3.65, Microsoft Edge (Chromium) at 3.24, and Opera. On the other hand – memory is there to be used. Google Chrome leads the web browser market with a 63.63 share, according to Statcounter. Safari is the fastest browser out there – it hasnt got many features, but all webpages work on it, it also has the most advanced engine out there. people still remember ff 1.5 memory consumption (and general crap’ines). yet, there is not a single one test, benchmark, whatever, that opera wins.Īnd then comes such test, and firefox wipes the floor with opera and all others. Add Apple’s famously locked-down system, and you have a browser that’s secure and reliable (HTTPS certificates for sites on Safari must be renewed every year, for example). I simply love when opera fanboys use ‘memory hog’ on anything that isnt opera and then throw in additional conditions for they browser to score best. Follow these steps, if your browser isn’t running at the moment. Select ‘Restart with Add-ons Disabled’ tab. Click on ‘Menu’ button or three parallel lines at the top right corner.
Finally, Chrome and Firefox posted the best memory figures at the end of the browsing session, with Opera consuming 4.1 times more memory than Firefox at the end of the test.įor some more details and script itself, check the original post. If Firefox is running, follow these steps. Peak memory usage measured during experiment.Īverage of all memory checkpoints throughout experiment.įigures taken after all tabs were closed at end.įirefox 3.5 also had the best average memory usage figures, meaning that it may consume the least memory of these browsers when used for the Alexa sites as tested in the benchmark. Usign script help, he has loaded 150 the most popular sites as per and monitored results. Firefox usage share grew to a peak of 32.21 in November 2009. Sam Allen from has tested the most recent web browser versions to find out, which one of them consumes the most and least memory. Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the.