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Having separate processes for each tab will increase resource usage. This isn't a problem if you've got a standard up-to-date home computer, but is a problem fo
by FreeFull 15y ago
Having separate processes for each tab will increase resource usage. This isn't a problem if you've got a standard up-to-date home computer, but is a problem for someone with outdated hardware like me. The thing is, there currently is no other browser that matches what Firefox can do for me in terms of plugins and tab management (particularly the ability not to load all tabs on start-up, but only the one I was looking at, which is helpful for saving RAM and bandwidth). If Firefox moves in a way that increases its resource usage, what alternative will there be for me? I will refuse to use an old version, and will be just left behind.
Note that I am welcome for suggestions of browsers that can potentially be a Firefox replacement if Firefox ever is no longer usable due to high requirements.
- joenathan 15y agoHow about updating your junker pc? I've been wait for Mozilla to do this for a long while, I have 8 threads available for use and I hate to see Firefox max out one thread and become unresponsive. With the MHZ wall still being a problem for CPU advancement all signs point to multi-threading being the future.
- Teckla 15y ago"Having separate processes for each tab will increase resource usage." My PC is a single core 1.66 GHz Atom running Windows 7 Professional in 1 GB of RAM. I can assure you multi-process Chrome outperforms Firefox on this machine, both in performance and memory use for real-world browsing. You should double check your assumption about separate processes increasing resource usage.
- FreeFull 15y agoLast time I tried Chromium, it used more RAM than Firefox for me for the same amount of tabs open. Maybe things have changed now. My laptop by the way is a 1.4GHz Celeron M with 768MB RAM