28th June 2009, 11:51 PM
I think it's safe to say that my five-year long love affair with Firefox has come to an end.
I love everything about it so far. It loads pages insanely fast, which is great. But, right now, I have a computer that is limited in memory (256MB), and while I liked Firefox, it was a furious memory hog and slowed my computer down to zero if I loaded anything more strenuous than a youtube video. Even when running a single open tab on a normal website, it would regularly consume anywhere from 80 to 150 megs of RAM and sometimes in excess of 300MB of paging file, which obviously is going to deep-six a computer like mine.
My current Google Chrome browser has two tabs open, the other running a YouTube video of Ray Kurzweil, and it's consuming a total of 60MB of paging file. It isn't slowing me down one iota. It's sleek, it's functional, it looks really nice and performs like a champ.
See you later, Firefox.
I love everything about it so far. It loads pages insanely fast, which is great. But, right now, I have a computer that is limited in memory (256MB), and while I liked Firefox, it was a furious memory hog and slowed my computer down to zero if I loaded anything more strenuous than a youtube video. Even when running a single open tab on a normal website, it would regularly consume anywhere from 80 to 150 megs of RAM and sometimes in excess of 300MB of paging file, which obviously is going to deep-six a computer like mine.
My current Google Chrome browser has two tabs open, the other running a YouTube video of Ray Kurzweil, and it's consuming a total of 60MB of paging file. It isn't slowing me down one iota. It's sleek, it's functional, it looks really nice and performs like a champ.
See you later, Firefox.
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