I'd rather not kill my entire browser just because a single tab hangs. Sometimes it takes several seconds to close.

_init_ wrote:with Chrome, I've had a lot of “page not responding” dialogs that pop up and don't kill the page or anything, leaving the browser to slow down to the point where nothing is usable, not even the close button.When that happens to me (not often), clicking the close button on the tab usually works. You have to rebuild every time you want the latest version, and that can take a really long time depending on your hardware (and uses a lot of RAM). The only differences in Chromium is the lack of proprietary codecs (required for streaming MP3, AAC, and H.264 formats), no built in Flash Player, no tracking (usage statistics and crash logs sent to Google), no automatic updates. I tell people to use Chrome though because they are more up to date in regards to security and that is becoming a bigger issue recently.ĭarkwren wrote:Try building Chromium from source: it probably uses much less than normal Chrome does.That won't make any noticeable different afaik. Right now all the browsers are pretty close to each other in performance that it's just up to your tastes. Now Firefox is switching to multiprocess ('e10s' or ‘electrolysis’ is the code name) and that is blurring the lines a little more. Originally it was Firefox that used less, more or less because it used a single process whereas Chrome used multiple processes for better stability. Am I doing something wrong? I thought Firefox was supposed to be super lightweight compared to Chrome? After browing for a bit Firefox on a blank tab uses 320MB of RAM.I wouldn't try too hard figuring out which one uses less RAM. (Scratch AND Youtube) With Scratch and Youtube open firefox uses 430MB of RAM. (That's with Scratch forums AND Youtube open!) While watching a video Firefox uses 340MB of RAM. On Youtube home page after signing in Firefox has two processes: one using 200MB of RAM and the other using 100MB of RAM. Firefox used the while 200MB in one process while chrome was 4 processes each using ~50MB. On a blank tab Chrome and Firefox both use around 150MB - 200MB of RAM. Bybb wrote:Ok, so I was getting annoyed at high RAM usage by Chrome so I installed firefox.

Why does firefox open so many processes