Comments on: Chrome browser memory usage: a good start

By: Simon B.

Simon B. — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:55:44 +0000

@George: Learn how to measure memory usage, for example here: http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/

Basically, realize that memory is more than “one number”.

As for who’s winning, I think Opera or Firefox 2 is the smallest, but they have other problems.
Maybe a fairer measurement for a browsers “success” would be by measuring the slope trends (applying stock market TA-skills?) on some browser wars web site?

By: tim

tim — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:30:50 +0000

@George

I agree, Chrome will probably use more memory if you have multiple pages open; on the other hand, the separate processes should reduce memory leaks. The simple test may indicate that it is more efficient for a singe page. If it’s lying of course, all bets are off (but we have the code).

Tim

By: George

George — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:24:24 +0000

I’m not convinced. These are chrome’s own figures. I had one window open and could see three 44k chrome processes running. The fact that each page is in a separate process means it uses more memory (with multiple pages at least), they admit this in the comic. Also my old low-memory machine started doing a lot of swapping after running it for a while – its probably because there is some part of IE7 already loaded in XP whether you’re using it or not. For old, low memory PCs (ie 512k or less) I would stick with IE7.

By: Martijn Coppoolse

Martijn Coppoolse — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:32:31 +0000

You’ve left one out: it struck me that Opera beat even Chrome by almost half. Beats me how they managed to do that…

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:10:04 +0000

Thats awesome .. almost half as the others