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Browser Comparison
Well I got a little disinterested in my work this afternoon and ran a test amongst the 3 browsers to their impact on my system performance. It came about on another forum as someone jokingly suggested that I open 12 IE windows and 12 Mozilla tabs and compare the memory usage.
30 MB for IE
50 MB for Firefox
78 MB for Opera
I did discover an interesting thing doing this though. Opening a new window with IE using CTRL+N (similar to opening a new tab) was WAY different from opening a new instance of IE. I used CNN.com as the test site, and these three were also hogging up the CPUs on my machine, firefox using 40% opera using 40%, and IE using about 20%.
However, minimizing firefox (not very useful like that though)freed up a bunch of memory, although it was still eating up CPU cycles.
I was suprised by the results so I'm glad I did try it. If I had opened up new instances of IE individually, as I typically would do, then I hit 416MB.
Lessons learned:
- When using IE, CTRL+N is definitely your friend.
- Firefox is still my first choice because I just plain prefer tabs.
- Having 36 windows of cnn.com open on your desktop does not help to make it look like you are working when people stop by your office.
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