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Posted November 05, 2012
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IronStar: AFAIK it mostly depends on what's open
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thebum06: True. I'm on facebook, streaming online radio, browsing various news sites and posting on a few forums. I guess it's not too taxing.
Just, reopened browser to let it flush the junk, and now It's down to 468K.
Not to mention it didn't launch flash plugin process for extra 500MB RAM
Posted November 05, 2012
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Roman5: Give Opera a shot

One of the best browsers out there right now, imo, they really improved it over time
If you base yourself on the latest version of each, I consider it the worst of the 5 main browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera).

I encountered 2 separate bugs with it (one for css, one for the canvas API). I double checked everything + it worked like a charm for all other 4 browsers.

Opera was at fault.

They really need to get their crap together, because their product is a buggy mess (kind of a throw back to older browsers when none of them rendered anything consistently without a bucketload of ugly hacks).

I'm just happy that less than 5% of web surfers use Opera.
Post edited November 05, 2012 by Magnitus
Posted November 05, 2012
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hedwards: It's a bit late, but one of the problems which Firefox has is bloat to the database. It has serious issues dealing with my large number of book marks.

Also, if you disable sync and restore tabs that usually helps as well. I've found that most of the problems with it are from scripts that stall out.

With 8GB of RAM, Chrome isn't bad, but for lesser amounts of RAM, it's hard to beat the RAM use of Firefox. Most of the competitors blow through RAM much more quickly.
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IronStar: Let's see...
Maxthon: 15 tabs = 778.840K
Firefox: Very same 15 tabs = 1.5GB + (Too lazy to reopen it now TBH)
If that's the case, you're doing something very, very wrong. Firefox uses more RAM if you only have a single tab open, but if you're having that many tabs open and still seeing more RAM in use, there's something very wrong with your system.

I can't recall the last time I saw Fx using more than 500mb of RAM. I have 4GB of RAM so Fx uses as much RAM as it's going to use and I still use less RAM than what you're pegging Maxthon at.

In fact, I haven't seen a single benchmark of memory use by browser in years where Fx wasn't far and away the leader on efficient use of RAM.
Posted November 05, 2012
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IronStar: Let's see...
Maxthon: 15 tabs = 778.840K
Firefox: Very same 15 tabs = 1.5GB + (Too lazy to reopen it now TBH)
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hedwards: If that's the case, you're doing something very, very wrong. Firefox uses more RAM if you only have a single tab open, but if you're having that many tabs open and still seeing more RAM in use, there's something very wrong with your system.

I can't recall the last time I saw Fx using more than 500mb of RAM. I have 4GB of RAM so Fx uses as much RAM as it's going to use and I still use less RAM than what you're pegging Maxthon at.

In fact, I haven't seen a single benchmark of memory use by browser in years where Fx wasn't far and away the leader on efficient use of RAM.
Well, I'm running FF 16 with adblock plus and nothing else. I don't see what could I do wrong?
4GB RAM here too..
Posted November 05, 2012
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hedwards: If that's the case, you're doing something very, very wrong. Firefox uses more RAM if you only have a single tab open, but if you're having that many tabs open and still seeing more RAM in use, there's something very wrong with your system.

I can't recall the last time I saw Fx using more than 500mb of RAM. I have 4GB of RAM so Fx uses as much RAM as it's going to use and I still use less RAM than what you're pegging Maxthon at.

In fact, I haven't seen a single benchmark of memory use by browser in years where Fx wasn't far and away the leader on efficient use of RAM.
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IronStar: Well, I'm running FF 16 with adblock plus and nothing else. I don't see what could I do wrong?
4GB RAM here too..
I shouldn't have phrased it like that.

Fx definitely shouldn't be using that much RAM if you only have that plug in. OTOH, I'd try disabling it first, then report it, because Fx shouldn't be using that much RAM.
Posted November 05, 2012
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Roman5: Give Opera a shot

One of the best browsers out there right now, imo, they really improved it over time
It is fast as hell, but I don't use it for much because of the lack of NoScript type functionality (not to mention AdBlock Plus, Flashblock, and Ghostery).

Yeah, I fucking hate ads... a lot.
Posted November 06, 2012
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orcishgamer: It is fast as hell, but I don't use it for much because of the lack of NoScript type functionality (not to mention AdBlock Plus, Flashblock, and Ghostery).

Yeah, I fucking hate ads... a lot.
I don't mind ads as a general concept, I just hate the way ads are done.

Sure, I want companies to show me the latest products I might be interested in. It's just:

1) Show me the products I'm actually interested in (no tampax or anti-aging cream pls).

2) Cut the crap and give me the data (I don't care how much you boast your product is good and cool and how much you care and blablabla, give me the actual figures and don't lie about it and if your product is crap or just very average and you got nothing worthwhile to report about it, then don't advertise).

3) Stop trying to promote ideas or values that offend me (I won't have a freaking problem with my face wrinkling up once I get in that age bracket and I didn't have a problem with the few zits I had as a teenager and I don't need my teeth to look perfect white and I don't care about having perfect radiant hair and that's just the tip of the iceberg).

Heck, I'd be more than willing to fill in some info that would allow them to do more targeted advertising if it meant I wouldn't have to see most of the garbage I'm seeing right now.

Because right now, that stuff is just spam. They will shoot an ad at millions of people, knowing that their target demographic will be a small fraction of the audience viewing the ad.
Post edited November 06, 2012 by Magnitus
Posted November 06, 2012
And you gotta love it when ads get compromised and they introduce malicious coding that infects your computer, or the additional cookies they place on your computer to track where you go.

Shoving something disgusting does not make me want to click the link, it makes me want to hit refresh to get rid of that image and get out the brain bleach. Don't show me an image of an infection or a zoom-in of a morbidly obese individual's stomach.

If the ads were not so obnoxious I wouldn't feel the need to use ad-block as well. Now an ad that is discrete but looks interesting, that will make me more likely to click on it. Or at least type the product into Startpage or Duckduckgo (I don't use google if I can help it), to see what it is all about. Furthermore, I need to feel like I can trust the ad to take me to the products page, one time when I accidently clicked on an ad at tv.com, I got a popup announcing that my computer is infected and I need to download this product or my computer will die

Ads are untrustworthy, obnoxious, and a liability to my computer's health. Why would I not want to use ad-block?
Post edited November 06, 2012 by Thunderstone
Posted November 06, 2012
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Thunderstone: one time when I accidently clicked on an ad at tv.com, I got a popup announcing that my computer is infected and I need to download this product or my computer will die
Gotta love that shit. It's a given that some stupid people will actually download that kind of malware.

Yeah, ad-block and noscript are my go to add-ons. There's just too much crap out there with which I don't want to be bothered.
Post edited November 06, 2012 by mistermumbles
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