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On a Mac, as far as I know, Safari uses the smallest amount of memory. (It's the only browser I've used on OS X for a while.) I'm surprised to see Firefox taki
by scholia 10y ago
On a Mac, as far as I know, Safari uses the smallest amount of memory. (It's the only browser I've used on OS X for a while.)
I'm surprised to see Firefox taking up 3.5GB of RAM. On my Windows 7 PC, it takes about 1GB after a day's browsing (without Flash). I usually have 80-100 tabs but only 15-20 are actually open. It's fine unless Flash goes ape and eats 2GB of RAM for no reason.
I also use Vivaldi and Opera on Windows 7. Both are based on Chromium and both consume more RAM than Firefox. Vivaldi does "lazy loading" so it only loads tabs when you click on them, whereas Opera still tries to load everything.)
- talos 10y agoIt might have to do with the amount of RAM on the computer? On a computer with 4GB of RAM, I've found FF crawls up to around 2GB; on a computer with 8, I've found it crawls up to around 4GB. Similar script blocking and host blocking setups on both, most recent versions of FF (though different versions of MacOS). Similar horrendous effect on the performance of everything else on the computer til I restart the damn browser.
- scholia 10y agoI have Windows PCs with anything from 2GB to 8GB, and I'm just about to upgrade one to 12GB, so I'll have a look when I get some free time. However, the browser putting a cap on RAM usage would seem a sensible approach....
- cauterized 10y agoIs there a way to get the latest version of safari to insert URLs instead of page titles in the location bar when doing autocomplete? That one seems to be the ergonomic dealbreaker for me when I try to use it as my primary browser for a day.