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Google Chrome
In side by side comparisons, I found that Chrome tends to use about 80%
less memory than Firefox in loading up the same pages and tabs. There
is also noticeably better long-term memory management as well. Before I
recorded the screencast, I left Chrome open for about and hour and a
half, and there was only about two extra megabytes of memory usage going
on after I came back. After a few minutes of going back to using the
apps I had loaded up, memory usage went back to normal.
less memory than Firefox in loading up the same pages and tabs. There
is also noticeably better long-term memory management as well. Before I
recorded the screencast, I left Chrome open for about and hour and a
half, and there was only about two extra megabytes of memory usage going
on after I came back. After a few minutes of going back to using the
apps I had loaded up, memory usage went back to normal.
Chrome is based off Webkit, the same codebase as Safari. As I
discovered in my usage of the program, though, none of the quirks
inherent to Safari were present in Chrome. As I stated yesterday
<http://rizzn.com/blog/2008/09/worst-browser-in-world.php>:
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