![]() As soon as we can get new betas I will try to run the exact same tests again. The peek memory usage was reached on Firefox 3 is really looking good and is now contending for the number one browser for me (the lack of creating ActiveX objects, which are used in SharePoint to open/edit documents, are now the only show stopper).Īs I said in the JavaScript test, Firefox 3 is in beta 4 while Internet Explorer 8 is in the first beta and I hope/guess/beg to see some improvements in this area. I did the test with fifteen different web sites, including SharePoint sites, Web 2.0 sites, Sunspider and different online magazines. What you can’t see in this diagram is that FF3b4 did use momentarily more memory, but I did not write these number down instead I wrote them down after the memory usage had stabilized after a few seconds. Take this comparison with a pinch of salt since it not that scientific…Īs you can see Firefox (3 beta 4 and 2) outperformed Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 and uses about 50 Mb of memory, in the end, on my machine while IE8 uses twice the amount. I did a small test on my own to compare beta 1 of Internet Explorer 8 and beta 4 of Firefox and the results was not that surprising. Pavlov shows with a number of graphs that Firefox 3 beta 4 outruns Internet Explorer 7 and previous versions of Firefox in good memory management. My experience with earlier versions of Firefox is that they over time consumes more memory and releases less than Internet Explorer. Well Rich, for my computer to load Safari, it takes about 22 seconds and for firefox, IT WAS SO SLOW, so i unistalled it and then i tryed internet explorer, that was just to horribly made becouse i need ADD ONS and that safari,firefox and Opera 9.5 don’t need them so i found Opera 9.5 a couple of days ago and downloaded it, when i tryed Opera 9.5, it was very very very fast and thats why. ![]() Firefox 3 uses a number of nice techniques to reduce the memory usage over time and it looks very promising. Unlike Internet Explorer, though, which was able to introduce sandboxing in version 10, Firefox had to worry about maintaining compatibility with almost 13 years of extensions, which is why this transition has been so slow. Stuart Parmenter, aka Pavlov, has written an article on the improvements of Firefox 3 memory management. You should not have to close and start your browser several times a day just to free memory, you should be able to start an instance in the morning and have that one running all day without having your memory trash. The real surprise, however, was Edge, weighing in at only 873 MB of memory. Other browsers are categorised as either 'Netscape compatible' (including Google Chrome, which may also be categorized as 'Safari' because. Running 10 tabs took up 952 MB of memory in Chrome, while Firefox took up 995 MB. Previous versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox have a bad history of consuming memory, which annoys me really much. (2000 to 2009) edit is a defunct a web counter service, and identifies sixteen versions of six browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Netscape, and Konqueror). ![]() A few days ago I compared the JavaScript performance of Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 and Firefox 3 beta 4 and Firefox won that round pretty easy. ![]()
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