ParoxysM Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Internet Explorer 8: Over 2x “Fatter” than Firefox For example, on our Dell OptiPlex 745 (Core 2 Duo @ 2.66GHz) Vista/XP test bed with 2GB of RAM, IE 8 consumed just under 380MB of memory during a 10-site, multi-tab browsing scenario of popular general media, technical media and humor-related Web destinations. By contrast, IE 7 consumed just under 250MB rendering this same workload, while Firefox 3.01 put both IE versions to shame by completing the same browsing scenario in just 159MB of RAM. The story gets worse for IE 8 when you examine the number of threads spawned to complete the scenarios. Under Firefox, the count never exceed 29 concurrent threads. IE 7 spawned a hefty 65 execution threads, while IE 8 tried to choke the life out of the CPU with a massive 171 concurrent threads. Such massively-threaded products will likely feel more at home on the 4, 8 and 16-core systems of tomorrow, but for right now they represent the worst kind of code bloat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Well you can always go with Chrome. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10030324-56.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParoxysM Posted September 2, 2008 Author Share Posted September 2, 2008 FF2 ftw, other IE6 (if it doesn't support FF) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbdwag Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 what browser needs to use 100MB+ of RAM? I guess FF (and the other too) are keeping their entire 'cache' in RAM instead of writing it to disk.... it would be rather easy to tell I would think... lynx anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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