Google Chrome vs. Mozilla Firefox physical memory consupmtion analysis

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I compared physical memory usage by using Task Manager and opening lots and lots of tabs. The tab I used was www.youtube.com. I only had one browser window open at once. I let the memory values settle before recording them. There shouldn't be any arithmetic errors.

On a side note I like this smiley !chair
 
As I predicted. Firefox 3 is the best browser our there... I think google has busted into a market they can't really hope to win.

On a side note, I'm Bias. My uncle designed a lot of the security and optimization features for Firefox 3 ;)
 
Well, I support firefox, but Chrome is still in the beta phase. So, it's pretty much expected that it will use a ton of ram.
 
now I need to time the page loads to see if chrome has better protocol implementation etc
 
I agree that it will take a LOT for me to stray from FF. But, I still think it's cool that Google is trying to get in on the browser front. It seems like a good start for them, at least.
 
I'm not biased either way and I must say that Chrome is dead sexy but as a developer I much prefer functionality to form, disregarding the huge memory usage from Chrome.
 
Chrome was released to public today, while Firefox has been out for years so it has had time to improve. Chrome in its first release is great and I love it. Though it has a LONG way to go, I'm sure it will do great and once it is out of beta, one of the top browsers I expect.
 
Chrome feels more like a vehicle to create revenue for Google.

Firefox feels more like a real open source product.

I choose Firefox :)
 
I think the reason for this may not actually be a problem with chrome, but one of the features.

From what I have read, each tab is treated almost like a separate browser within the browser. So if the page on one tab screws up, the whole browser does not need to be shut down. Looking at it from this perspective, along with your graph, your curve is fairly linear, which looks to me like each tab is using about the same extra amount of memory. To me that says that each tab is isolated from the rest. Not saying its a good thing, but thats just the way it seems to me.
 
Mustachio said:
I think the reason for this may not actually be a problem with chrome, but one of the features.

From what I have read, each tab is treated almost like a separate browser within the browser. So if the page on one tab screws up, the whole browser does not need to be shut down. Looking at it from this perspective, along with your graph, your curve is fairly linear, which looks to me like each tab is using about the same extra amount of memory. To me that says that each tab is isolated from the rest. Not saying its a good thing, but thats just the way it seems to me.
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yes that's correct, Chrome opens one chrome.exe for each tab plus one extra for the "home base". regardless of what google says if you think about this in the context of cloud computing it makes Chrome extremely desirable over Firefox if you're going to primarily use web-based applications.
 
I tried it out for a bit and it looks promising. Still, the one thing that keeps firefox on all my machines is the adblock add-on. No flash ads FTW. :D
 
I might try using chrome for a while, just to see what it is. I have to give Google a lot of credit, they make awesome stuff and it works well :)
 
Hm...

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i was going to point the fact that you were wrong... until i seen at the bottom of my task manager that there were more chorme.exe's open.... tis weird how that is implemented....

ill show you guys.... just look at the bottom of my task manager window

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I used Firefox for a long time, then it screwed up on me.

Anybody ever try out Opera? I've been using Opera for a little while now and I really enjoy it. Too lazy to try out Chrome for now =)
 
Mustachio said:
I think the reason for this may not actually be a problem with chrome, but one of the features.

From what I have read, each tab is treated almost like a separate browser within the browser. So if the page on one tab screws up, the whole browser does not need to be shut down. Looking at it from this perspective, along with your graph, your curve is fairly linear, which looks to me like each tab is using about the same extra amount of memory. To me that says that each tab is isolated from the rest. Not saying its a good thing, but thats just the way it seems to me.
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I believe the IE8 beta also has this feature, or is planning to.
 
Tangerine said:
I believe the IE8 beta also has this feature, or is planning to.
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Also... you must remember that chrome DOES INFACT have its OWN SEPERATE WINDOWS! You can drag a tab off of the main window to treat it as its own. Try it yourself! It is actually really neat.
 
yeah I noticed that it's a pretty cool feature. and yes I took into account all the open chrome.exe processes.
 
Tangerine said:
I believe the IE8 beta also has this feature, or is planning to.
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Yes IE8 Beta has actually been out for 4 or 5 months now, although you have to look really hard for it (or atleast i had to) If your thinking about getting it, i wouldn't recommend it... unless it has come farther than before
 
Because of it's process handling, chrome will have less memory consumption over time. It's explained in pretty basic terms in their comic book, but closing chrome tabs completely frees up the memory that was in use, while Firefox and other browsers can't. And their javascript/web application handling will be the fastest on the net.
 
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