"pinnerite" <
pinn...@gmail.com> wrote
| This question made me check Firefox and Chromium on my Linux Mint system.
| I think the latter is marginally faster.
|
| I also have Firefox on an XP virtual machine hosted via VirtualBox on
Mint.
| I have 4GB allocated to XP. I ran up firefox and to my surprise it was
easily as fast.
|
| So how much RAM does your machine have?
|
I'm on XP-32 with a bit more than 3 GB RAM usable. It never
gets anywhere near being used up. FF uses 200 MB just to sit
there, and it takes a couple of seconds to get up off its fat
ass when I start it. But it never eats up a lot of memory.
The first thing to think of is good housekeeping. Don't leave
100 pages open because you can't be bothered to clean up.
Don't allow things to re-load by themselves. Don't allow video
to load. Use a HOSTS file or extension to block unrelated
crap and ads. Use NoScript to block any script that's not
absolutely necessary.
A typical page at a news website might have 6 videos running
and up to 20 MB of junk, mostly script, coming from all sorts
of spyware/ad sources. So maybe that's taking 100 MB of RAM?
Maybe a lot more. But the real page, with CSS and a few images,
probably needs more like 3 MB RAM.
So you can debate which browser is more efficient, but if
it's taking 4 GB RAM to do web browsing then the problem is not
the browser. That's like driving an 18-wheeler full of garbage,
for no reason, and complaining about bad gas mileage.