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> Gecko is slow You lost me there. Latest Firefox easily rivals Chrome for both startup and initialization time.
by starik36 14y ago
> Gecko is slow
You lost me there. Latest Firefox easily rivals Chrome for both startup and initialization time.
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- saurabh 14y agoI use an AMD 1.6 GHZ powered netbook with 2GB RAM running Arch Linux. Chromium is unbearably slow after opening a few tabs. Firefox chugs along just fine.
- pekk 14y agoI have never seen that on many systems, perhaps Arch has been configured in a strange way.
- moystard 14y agoI have always noted that behavior, Chrome has a better memory management with a few tabs opened, but if you start opening a bunch of them, then Firefox clearly wins the memory battle.
- mtgx 14y agoThat's probably because it shares memory between tab processes, since each tab is not in its own sandbox like in Chrome. Personally, I prefer the security of tab sandboxes.
- codinghorror 14y agoYeah, the latest Firefoxes are plenty fast, in both JS and DOM. And for that matter, so is IE10, though they iterate much slower and tend to fall behind over time on that basis.