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Thanks for the links. Unfortunately the tests that tech sites do for memory consumption are quite rudimentary -- usually they don't do much more than start the
by nnethercote 14y ago
Thanks for the links. Unfortunately the tests that tech sites do for memory consumption are quite rudimentary -- usually they don't do much more than start the browser, open a few sites, and measure.
This kind of testing produces results that favour Firefox, because Firefox does very well when you measure memory consumption in a browser session that hasn't been alive for long, but less well in longer-running sessions. This is partly due to its mostly-single-process architecture, which makes for smaller per-tab/site overhead, but fragmentation and leaks hurt more over time.
As a result, at this point in time I find reports from actual users more convincing than measurements done by tech sites. Firefox's memory consumption has improved a lot in the last 18 months, and I've heard lots of users say it uses less memory for them than it used to. I was hoping that antonios might have something similar to say.