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Also using Firefox (Developer Edition) as my primary browser. But my observations are quite different: - On my machine, Firefox uses more RAM than Chrome (Can
by cygned 10y ago
Also using Firefox (Developer Edition) as my primary browser.
But my observations are quite different:
- On my machine, Firefox uses more RAM than Chrome (Canary) for the same workloads and is slower
- Chrome is way faster. As a web application developer I notice that all the time. Chrome renders faster and the JavaScript engine also processes faster. Firefox likes to crash when reloading a page that uses WebSockets.
- I don't know your platform, but on OS X the default UI of Firefox is awful. That's the primary reason why I use the Developer Edition.
- NTripleOne 10y agoAnother thing people don't seem to understand is that Chrome uses as much memory as it sanely can for the task provided. There are situations where it will use more, or less than Firefox, but I guarantee you in 99% of those situations, Chrome will be the one performing faster.
- seba_dos1 10y agoNot true in my case. Chromium often makes the system start feeling unresponsive by causing a lot of swapping, while Firefox deals well with way more tabs open and still keeps some RAM free for other apps to use. When Firefox catches some memory leak and also starts to swap, restarting it fixes the issue (but I have to say that it has become very rare nowadays), but when I restart Chromium, I have to quickly clean up unused tabs to prevent them from eating whole RAM again. On my 8GB RAM machines, Chromium performs faster when there are up to 10 tabs open, but otherwise Firefox easily beats it.