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If you often have many tabs open, Firefox the better choice in terms of memory consumption. I use Chrome for more "appy" web sites, and Firefox for the rest of

If you often have many tabs open, Firefox the better choice in terms of memory consumption. I use Chrome for more "appy" web sites, and Firefox for the rest of my casual browsing.

neves 10y ago
funny, Firefox is always the greatest memory hog in my machine. Probably due to uBlock.
- sam_goody 10y ago
  I have in the past had over 700 tabs open in FF (which is insane, I know) and it handled everything with aplomb until I switched from ABP to uBlock. Now, I can't shut Firefox without it crashing, and my tab count can be as low as 100. I don't use Chrome, since it bothers me that Google tracks and profiles everything I do, but when I did I was shocked that about twenty tabs and it hits the floor.
- Sylos 10y ago
  uBlock Origin usually rather decreases RAM usage, since ads tend to take up a fair chunk of RAM, too. If you want to troubleshoot it, type "about:memory" into the URL-bar and hit enter, then click the "Measure"-button to the left. This should give you a pretty detailed listing of everything that takes up RAM, and usually, high RAM usage is caused by an extension having memory leaks, so you'll probably see a pretty big number somewhere near the root of the tree and should be able to follow it along to whatever is causing it. If it is an extension, obviously try to find a replacement, if it's not an extension, you should probably file a bug report...
- mrinterweb 10y ago
  I haven't found uBlock origin to consume much memory when looking at about:memory (Show memory reports). Perhaps another add-on is chewing up your memory. I often have 20+ tabs open. If I have 20 or more tabs with Chrome open, and I add up the memory for all the per-tab processes Chrome spawns, Chrome eats up way too much memory. Chrome is great as long as you don't have many open tabs. Firefox is great for those of us that just can't close our tabs.

If you often have many tabs open, Firefox the better choice in terms of memory consumption. I use Chrome for more "appy" web sites, and Firefox for the rest of my casual browsing.

neves 10y ago

funny, Firefox is always the greatest memory hog in my machine. Probably due to uBlock.

sam_goody 10y ago
I have in the past had over 700 tabs open in FF (which is insane, I know) and it handled everything with aplomb until I switched from ABP to uBlock. Now, I can't shut Firefox without it crashing, and my tab count can be as low as 100. I don't use Chrome, since it bothers me that Google tracks and profiles everything I do, but when I did I was shocked that about twenty tabs and it hits the floor.
Sylos 10y ago
uBlock Origin usually rather decreases RAM usage, since ads tend to take up a fair chunk of RAM, too. If you want to troubleshoot it, type "about:memory" into the URL-bar and hit enter, then click the "Measure"-button to the left. This should give you a pretty detailed listing of everything that takes up RAM, and usually, high RAM usage is caused by an extension having memory leaks, so you'll probably see a pretty big number somewhere near the root of the tree and should be able to follow it along to whatever is causing it. If it is an extension, obviously try to find a replacement, if it's not an extension, you should probably file a bug report...
mrinterweb 10y ago
I haven't found uBlock origin to consume much memory when looking at about:memory (Show memory reports). Perhaps another add-on is chewing up your memory. I often have 20+ tabs open. If I have 20 or more tabs with Chrome open, and I add up the memory for all the per-tab processes Chrome spawns, Chrome eats up way too much memory. Chrome is great as long as you don't have many open tabs. Firefox is great for those of us that just can't close our tabs.