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How about we get a Firefox that doesn't use a gig of RAM for 10 tabs? Or perhaps isn't slower than IE9 in jscript?

by lsv1 13y ago

21echoes 13y ago
Firefox has consistently been shown to use less RAM than all other browsers: http://media.bestofmicro.com/L/5/390857/original/memuse.png http://media.bestofmicro.com/L/5/390857/original/memuse.png
- nly 13y ago
  Not only that, it's faster as well. Try closing a session of Chrome with 20 tabs open and then reopening it. On both Windows and Linux, Chrome can be extremely unresponsive in this scenario. FF lazy loads tabs so doesn't care to reload everything in the background when you restart your session.
  - lsv1 13y ago
    I've noticed the reverse with Firefox, closing an instance with 20 tabs takes quite some time. However I've yet to notice Chrome take any time in opening 20 tabs.
pwnna 13y ago
Yeah. Chrome has been consistently using more RAM, CPU, and power for me than firefox over the last year or so.
Watabou 13y ago
People still seem to make the statement that Firefox uses more RAM, when in fact, since Firefox 20, it has consistently used LESS ram than all the other browsers. I have 40 tabs open now, and it's using 1.16 GB which is awesome. I actually want it to take up more because I have 6GB of free RAM not being used, which is a waste. Compare that to chrome. Using the same number of tabs and it can easily take up more than 3GB of ram on my system, which is expected since each tab is a different process. I wonder when Firefox's tabs will run on their own separate process. I'm looking forward to that. I think I saw some updates a month ago but I can't find that now. (fwiw, I have 16GB of RAM)
- keeperofdakeys 13y ago
  Here is a link to the project https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis. The only thing about using separate processes is that you increase memory usage, since every tab has overhead, and tabs can't share resources (chrome tends to go process per domain).
  - zobzu 13y ago
    i think electrolysis currently does something like grouping tabs like 10 per process or something. In nightly: about:config => browser.tabs.remote set to true restart firefox. bang, you have multiprocess firefox. a word of warning: it doesn't work so well, so i guess it's experimetal. you'll probably want to revert to false ;-)

How about we get a Firefox that doesn't use a gig of RAM for 10 tabs? Or perhaps isn't slower than IE9 in jscript?

by lsv1 13y ago

How about we get a Firefox that doesn't use a gig of RAM for 10 tabs? Or perhaps isn't slower than IE9 in jscript?

Firefox has consistently been shown to use less RAM than all other browsers: http://media.bestofmicro.com/L/5/390857/original/memuse.png http://media.bestofmicro.com/L/5/390857/original/memuse.png

nly 13y ago
Not only that, it's faster as well. Try closing a session of Chrome with 20 tabs open and then reopening it. On both Windows and Linux, Chrome can be extremely unresponsive in this scenario. FF lazy loads tabs so doesn't care to reload everything in the background when you restart your session.
- lsv1 13y ago
  I've noticed the reverse with Firefox, closing an instance with 20 tabs takes quite some time. However I've yet to notice Chrome take any time in opening 20 tabs.

pwnna 13y ago

Yeah. Chrome has been consistently using more RAM, CPU, and power for me than firefox over the last year or so.

Watabou 13y ago

People still seem to make the statement that Firefox uses more RAM, when in fact, since Firefox 20, it has consistently used LESS ram than all the other browsers. I have 40 tabs open now, and it's using 1.16 GB which is awesome. I actually want it to take up more because I have 6GB of free RAM not being used, which is a waste. Compare that to chrome. Using the same number of tabs and it can easily take up more than 3GB of ram on my system, which is expected since each tab is a different process. I wonder when Firefox's tabs will run on their own separate process. I'm looking forward to that. I think I saw some updates a month ago but I can't find that now. (fwiw, I have 16GB of RAM)

keeperofdakeys 13y ago
Here is a link to the project https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis. The only thing about using separate processes is that you increase memory usage, since every tab has overhead, and tabs can't share resources (chrome tends to go process per domain).
- zobzu 13y ago
  i think electrolysis currently does something like grouping tabs like 10 per process or something. In nightly: about:config => browser.tabs.remote set to true restart firefox. bang, you have multiprocess firefox. a word of warning: it doesn't work so well, so i guess it's experimetal. you'll probably want to revert to false ;-)