{"id":535,"date":"2009-01-15T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2009\/01\/main-browsers-memory-usage\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:28:09","slug":"main-browsers-memory-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2009\/01\/main-browsers-memory-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Main browsers memory usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s the results of a small &quot;experiment&quot; I made today. I wanted to directly compare memory usage of as many different browsers as possible. I understand it&#39;s not a really scientific experiment, but I think it shows some interesting results nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p>You can try it too, and report your results if you want.<\/p>\n<p>So I setup this test on my machine, Windows Vista 32 bit, 3 Gb of RAM, a fresh new account and:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.6000.16764<\/li>\n<li>Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4<\/li>\n<li>Apple Safari 3.2 (WebKit 525.26.13)<\/li>\n<li>Google Chrome 1.0.154.43 (WebKit 525.19)<\/li>\n<li>Opera 9.63 (Build 10476)<\/li>\n<li>Opera 10.00 Alpha (Build 1139)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For every browser, I fired up the same 3 tabs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/community\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">My Opera community (and logged in with my account, with latest activities and all&#8230;)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gmail Inbox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Some blog of mine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nI kept every browser opened, but I had to switch between Opera 9.63 and Opera 10 because Chrome doesn&#39;t distinguish between the different Opera processes. I guess because both are named <code>opera.exe<\/code> in the Windows process list. However&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI used the <code>about:memory<\/code> tab of Chrome to find out the memory usage statistics. However, I could have used the Windows task manager in the same way, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmanager.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">FAR<\/a>&#39;s process list plugin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#39;s the results:\n<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/cstrep\/blog\/browsers-memory-usage.png\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nSo here we can see that Firefox and then Opera use the least amount of memory, with a few Mbytes of difference. In Firefox 3 Mozilla worked a lot to keep memory usage low and this (basic) results confirm it. Again, not to defend Opera on this, but Opera has <strong>Ad Blocker, Speed Dials, Bookmarks+ Sync, a full Email client and what-not already builtin<\/strong>. It would be nice to do another test with Firefox plus the most popular and used extensions&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd now we can compare the situation when we remove Opera 9.63 and add Opera 10,<br \/>\nwhich is still in <strong>alpha<\/strong> stage:\n<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/cstrep\/blog\/browsers-memory-usage-opera10.png\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nAnother <strong>impressive result<\/strong> is that Opera 10 uses <strong>less memory than every other browser<\/strong>, and at the same time adds support for WebFonts, passes Acid3 with 100\/100, has a new Spell Checker&#8230; Do you need more? :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s the results of a small &quot;experiment&quot; I made today. I wanted to directly compare memory usage of as many different browsers as possible. I understand it&#39;s not a really scientific experiment, but I think it shows some interesting results nevertheless. 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