On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:34 PM, S. Senthil Anand <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yeah. Browsing for a long time, with many tabs. Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 >> use far less memory than Chrome, at least on my machines. I should >> have called it 'power browsing' or 'vettiness' :P > > Isn't that by design ? > > By using a separate process per tab, Chrome is trading off speed and > security with memory usage.
It is, and a long browsing session with many tabs and add-ons can almost bring my desktop (albeit a ~5 years old one) to a halt. I use Chrome mostly to test some web applications, or for a quick mail check. Firefox is quite slick at this task. -- Salvadesswaran Srinivasan http://www.twitter.com/salva_eswar http://queasyquagmire.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
