- Jan 7, 2011
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According to a recent test on ghacks.net (read the entire blog post here), "Chrome uses way more memory than Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer". They tested by opening 10 popular websites in different tabs and measuring RAM usage (different values like Private, Shared and Total Memory, Private and Mapped Virtual Memory) using Windows Task Manager. No extensions or plugins were enabled.
Their results in ascending order (first browser uses less memory, the last browser uses more):
Now, I have a couple of small issues/questions regarding the test:
I'm a long time Firefox user but even I feel that Chrome is faster to respond in some cases.
Their results in ascending order (first browser uses less memory, the last browser uses more):
- Opera 12.00
- Mozilla Firefox 16 Nightly
- Internet Explorer 9
- Google Chrome 22 Canary
Now, I have a couple of small issues/questions regarding the test:
- Using dev or beta builds could influence the result?
- Can we reliably measure RAM usage?
- Is RAM usage that important?
I'm a long time Firefox user but even I feel that Chrome is faster to respond in some cases.