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Maybe you have a different use case than I do; my Chrome instance usually uses about 30% more memory than Firefox despite having a quarter as many tabs open.
by saulrh 15y ago
Maybe you have a different use case than I do; my Chrome instance usually uses about 30% more memory than Firefox despite having a quarter as many tabs open.
- nikcub 15y agoOS X? I have 50+ tabs open atm and it is taking up 690MB in total. Chrome is also good with swaping/paging tabs that are in the background. Also, I have flash disabled, and use 3 separate builds of chrome on OS X to separate web accounts, dev instances and anonymous browsing
- saulrh 15y agoWin7. Between eight and ten tabs open, one open to Grooveshark. Everything gets refreshed every eight hours or so. Firefox usually has anywhere between five and a hundred tabs open. Both get rebooted about once every three days for updates. Chrome is at 400MB, FF is currently at 300.
- nikcub 15y agomy own experience was that chrome on windows is the best/fastest browser experience available atm, but I don't use it often. have you tried chrome canary or webkit/safari? you seem to have a weird problem - it might be down to a plugin or extension, so I would disable them all and re-enable one-by-one.
- saulrh 15y agoI'm running Canary. I think it's mostly thanks to Flash, really; I've never had good luck with Adobe software and Flash is the worst of the worst.
- nikcub 15y agochrome://plugins/ - kill flash, enable html5 on youtube, and you will never miss it. been 18 months for me, and I very very rarely find that I need to open a flash-enabled browser
- redthrowaway 15y agoI'm thinking there has to be more overhead with chrome simply due to each tab being its own process. I have left chrome open for weeks before without it screwing things up too badly though, so it seems to be alright.