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Browser UI responsiveness

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pcslookout

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I been reading on another forum where a lot of people are discussing the different browser's UI and how quick each one feels.

Why is it so different with each browser ? I don't get it. Some seem to be better than others at times. If you don't use it a lot or not a power user you most likely won't notice it. There is a difference though between all the browsers it is just hard to tell at times depending on what you are doing and how many tabs you have open at one time. Maybe it is stupid to worry about ? Just wondering if anyone else has ever noticed the same thing and if there is anyway to fix it ? This has nothing to do with how fast each browser loads web pages btw.
 
Way too many things affect responsiveness on a non-RT system, even a single I/O request from something else can cause an app to pause for a few ms and make the user think the app is non-responsive for a moment. I think most of it is in the head of the user.
 
Nothinman said:
Way too many things affect responsiveness on a non-RT system, even a single I/O request from something else can cause an app to pause for a few ms and make the user think the app is non-responsive for a moment. I think most of it is in the head of the user.
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Ok thanks.
 
i think chrome runs each tab as a separate process, so maybe it can perform somewhat better with a certain number of tabs, but i find it totally dies when you go with dozens at a time. firefox gets bogged down a bit with loads of tabs, but it remains acceptable.
 
0roo0roo said:
i think chrome runs each tab as a separate process, so maybe it can perform somewhat better with a certain number of tabs, but i find it totally dies when you go with dozens at a time. firefox gets bogged down a bit with loads of tabs, but it remains acceptable.
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Technically Chrome should scale better since you're not bottlenecked by having 1 process managing X number of tabs. I never looked at the source to see if there are any other bottlenecks in Chrome that might negate that advantage though. And I can't say I've had any UI problems with Chrome regardless of number of tabs.
 
What I noticed is Opera and IE are better than Firefox when it comes to Browser UI responsiveness but like 0roo0roo said "firefox gets bogged down a bit with loads of tabs, but it remains acceptable." No idea with Chrome.

I wonder what will happen when Firefox gets each tab as a separate process too?
 
pcslookout said:
What I noticed is Opera and IE are better than Firefox when it comes to Browser UI responsiveness but like 0roo0roo said "firefox gets bogged down a bit with loads of tabs, but it remains acceptable." No idea with Chrome.

I wonder what will happen when Firefox gets each tab as a separate process too?
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Same as Chrome, it'll depend on how many points of contention exist to bottleneck things.
 
With many tabs open Chrome feels a little faster than Internet Explorer or Firefox.
I still dont see the purpose of a 64 bit IE. If its supposed to be faster I havent noticed it.
 
shortylickens said:
With many tabs open Chrome feels a little faster than Internet Explorer or Firefox.
I still dont see the purpose of a 64 bit IE. If its supposed to be faster I havent noticed it.
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Apps that are extremely I/O bound generally won't see an improvement when moving to 64-bit. Given that a web browser generally sits and waits around for user input before doing anything I can understand why you wouldn't see a big improvement.
 
shortylickens said:
With many tabs open Chrome feels a little faster than Internet Explorer or Firefox.
I still dont see the purpose of a 64 bit IE. If its supposed to be faster I havent noticed it.
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In theory anything built for AMD64 is faster than x86 because of the additional registers and such, but in practice the difference is negated by other things like I/O from disk, network, user, etc. Only things very CPU-bound will run long enough for the difference to be appreciable. It's like driving 5-10mph over the speed limit, If you can maintain the speed you save yourself ~30s at best but any stop signs, sharp turns, deer, etc will totally kill those savings.
 
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