Favorite Web Browsers

Favorite Brower(s)

  • Internet Explorer

    Votes: 14 9.7%
  • Safari

    Votes: 9 6.3%
  • Mozilla Firefox

    Votes: 102 70.8%
  • Google Chrome

    Votes: 36 25.0%
  • Opera

    Votes: 33 22.9%
  • Avant Browser

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Konqueror

    Votes: 2 1.4%
  • Lynx

    Votes: 4 2.8%
  • Maxthon

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • AOL Explorer

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Netscape

    Votes: 6 4.2%
  • Flock

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • K-Meleon

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Other (Please State)

    Votes: 6 4.2%

  • Total voters
    144
Weird. My Firefox has been running for a day straight now and its still at 250mb. I even have like 15 tabs open currently.
 
Firefox 3.0.10, Yahoo mail, gmail, two cfc windows and the Anandtech window open from the computer questions thread, and I'm taking up 166mb.

If I open up weather underground, and turn on the google maps weather radar overlay, it can easily get to over a gig of ram.

IE is lower, but not much. I haven't tried that yet with 7 or 8.
 
Mine's at 350mb, but that's in Vista's task manager, so it's not necessarily the amount of RAM firefox is actually using... I've never seen it get over 450mb or so though.
 
I wouldn't worry about it in general. Memory consumption does not correlate to performance.

Mine's at 350mb, but that's in Vista's task manager, so it's not necessarily the amount of RAM firefox is actually using... I've never seen it get over 450mb or so though.

Well, the Vista task manager is accurate, but you have to know what it's actually measuring.

From MS:

•Memory - Working Set. Amount of memory in the private working set plus the amount of memory the process is using that can be shared by other processes.
•Memory - Peak Working Set. Maximum amount of working set memory used by the process.
•Memory - Working Set Delta. Amount of change in working set memory used by the process.
•Memory - Commit Size. Amount of virtual memory that is reserved for use by a process.
•Memory - Paged Pool. Amount of committed virtual memory for a process that can be written to another storage medium, such as the hard disk.
•Memory - Non-paged Pool. Amount of committed virtual memory for a process that cannot be written to another storage medium.

Description of all the task manager columns.
 
IE8 is more or less on par with the other major browsers.

Agreed - it's a good browser.

Chrome is my browser of choice, before which I used IE7. Chrome is quick, slick, and intuitive. It's even got some pretty cool developer features built in. It's worked brilliant for me so far, but then I'm using Vista ;), so I don't know why some previous posters were having problems. I'm looking forward to seeing what Google will make of it in the future.

I also have IE8, Firefox and Safari for Windows installed, and I've been meaning to get Opera. Opera Mini is a great browser for Java enabled mobile phones too.
 
I used to use firefox (used to being 3 or 4 days ago) but just switched over to Chrome. It is much faster, and now that I have figured out how to block ads on it, everything is cool. I still use firefox for browsing that requires more power though.
 
It seems that Firefox 3.5 uses massive amounts of Memory. I left it running on my computer for much of today and I found that is was using about 1.4GB of Ram. Normally 3.0 would use less than 100MB, so I restarted it and it was about 78MB and now it is nearly 200MB and that is less than 30minutes. :eek:

If you've got the RAM, it would be silly for FireFox NOT to use it I think.
 
The problem is that is slows down the whole computer and this never happened on 3.0. It would be fine f it were specific web pages that used up a lot of memory, but that is not what is happening. I used to be albe to have multiple tabs and windows open and have BTS open and now that is not possible since the system is so much slower due to this problem.
 
Opera 10.1 here, waiting for 10.5, which has had very good performance previews. My bro swears by FireFox, though I think he may be swayed by Opera 10.5 soon!
 
I use Firefox, but I have not heard of Opera. Chrome sounds familiar, though. I'll have to ask around. Here would be a good place to start. Are they better than Firefox?
 
I've gotten the portable edition of Google Chrome (Runs off of a USB stick), I can say it's less of a memory hog than Firefox and can play Fallout 3 with no issues.
 
FWIW, I haven't noticed any memory issues in Vista or Windows 7. Either OS memory management in these versions reigns FF in, or FF's latest versions don't suffer the same problems as they used to.
 
Well Google Chrome has just gotten better. New extension support! :D

Especially the Flashblock extension and the Youtube Autoreplace (I watch a lot of music video on YouTube) for Chrome!

For all of us posters, Lazarus is also ported to the web browser.
 
Well Google Chrome has just gotten better. New extension support! :D

Especially the Flashblock extension and the Youtube Autoreplace (I watch a lot of music video on YouTube) for Chrome!

For all of us posters, Lazarus is also ported to the web browser.

I agree with you there - I've been using it for months on the beta channel ;). Thanks for the tip btw, Lazarus looks like it could be a real life-saver for me on those rare occasions.

I find IE-Tab quite invaluable, and goo.gl url shortner has come in useful several times.
 
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