The Firefox web browser is well-known for its memory leak problems. If you leave it open for a long enough time, it can take up as much as 200 MB of memory, even if you’re not actively using it. As an experiment, I opened up both Firefox and Internet Explorer and looked at the memory consumption of both when they had been open for a very short amount of time. The results are fairly interesting. Firefox was taking up almost five times as much RAM as Internet Explorer. And considering that Firefox was taking up more than 100 MB during my browsing session a short while earlier, it’s not inconceivable that the ratio would have gone up over time. Here’s the screenshot:
Granted, I may have a few extensions enabled on Firefox that IE doesn’t have, but that doesn’t help the memory leak problem. Or the incredibly slow startup time. Get working on this, Mozilla! Or I may be forced to switch to Opera.
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It only makes sense that FF would seemingly use more resources than IE, assuming you’re running Windows. Alot of IE’s functions are embedded directly into the OS.
I use both IE and FF regularly. I greatly prefer IE.
I didn’t think about that, actually. I prefer Firefox because of the extensions, but those extensions are what makes it sluggish. I just wish they’d get on the memory leak problem, which has been around for a long time. Hopefully Firefox 3 will fix that…maybe. Or maybe I should just stop worrying so much about my web browser. I’m such a geek.
I suggest people look for enigma browser and download it from http://store.democratz.org
You can find the link just above the products and you can download it for free.
Engima runs faster than Firefox and you can easily run 32 tabs and not slow down the machine.
(Admin’s note: you can directly download Enigma from http://www.suttondesigns.com/)