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Comparison: Firefox 2.0a1 vs. IE7b2 memory usage
Josiah Cole at Oomny, a very odd
little gem of a blog, has posted an interesting
comparison of the memory usage of Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 ("Bon Echo") and Internet Explorer 7 beta 2, both
of which were released this week? The results are a little surprising. Firefox consistently outperforms IE, using
slightly more than half the memory for single pages. Cole notes, however, that IE's memory use drops significantly when
the browser is in the background or minimized, wheras Firefox's stays constant. Cole also does some tests using multiple
tabs in which Firefox again performs well, but these results are offset by the fact that he's using an about:config tweak that makes his
experience atypical. Still, though both browsers are early in their development cycles, it's interesting to see how
Mozilla's alpha browser compares to Microsoft's beta.[Via Digg]
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Subscribe to commentsEagle117Mar 24th 2006 1:57PM
Argh, if only Maxthon got more press. Sure it is based on IE6's engine, but it has all of the cool features you want and uses much less memory than IE all with one window and multiple tabs.
www.maxthon.com
shadekhMar 24th 2006 2:43PM
hmm, does firefox's problem with not releasing memory taken up by tabs still remain? That required a restart of ffox ever so often.