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Cattykit

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With previous versions, after browsing several news and forums sites along with multimedia heavy sites like Youtube and Vimeo, RAM usage on my firefox.exe would typically reach up to 500mb while plugin-container would go up to 800mb~1.2GB. That was just way too much.

With the new version, firefox.exe is eating up 300mb and plugin-container is only taking 41mb of RAM.
While this is too early to draw conclusion since I've only used it for less than an hour, one thing I'm sure is that plugin-container.exe does release RAM once it's done with playing Flash.
 
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RU482

Lifer
Apr 9, 2000
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jobz said:
Chrome runs each tab in a separate process, so when a tab crashes, by flash mostly, it doesn't bring down the whole browser.

Firefox has something similar. It runs extensions in a separate process, namely plugin-container.exe.
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I only had one tab open

EDIT: nevermind, figured out it was extensions
 
pyonir

pyonir

Lifer
Dec 18, 2001
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GTaudiophile said:
Could someone with FF7 please go to http://www.di.fm/ and see if another tab automatically opens asking you to Like the site on FB?

Thanks.
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Doesn't for me either. But I've had that happen on a couple sites in the past. I never did figure out what caused it but eventually it stopped doing it after a day or two. It would only do it on one specific site though (not di.fm).
 
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Possessed Freak

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Nov 4, 1999
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Sigh, my right clicking is now all kinds of messed up. Right click on selected text and I get URL stuff. Right click on some more text a bit later and I get a book of options including flash controls... but no copy/paste!? It is getting VERY frustrating.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Some benches comparing browsers...

JavaScript standards compliance: http://test262.ecmascript.org (lower failures is better):
Firefox: 191 failures
Chrome: 425 failures
Safari: 832 failures
Opera: 3,750 failures

HTML5 standards compliance: http://html5test.com (higher is better):
Firefox: 313 and 9 bonus points
Safari: 293 and 8 bonus points
Opera: 286 with 7 bonus points
Chrome: 284 and 2 bonus points

CSS3 standards compliance: http://acid3.acidtests.org (higher is better):
All score 100% with fluid animation.

JavaScript benchmark performance: http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html (lower is better):
Firefox: 211.9ms +/- 1.3%
Opera: 258.2ms +/- 2.7%
Safari: 291.4ms +/- 0.9%
Chrome: 298.3ms +/- 7.1%


http://pthree.org/
 
Miramonti

Miramonti

Lifer
Aug 26, 2000
28,653
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Upgrading from 4.01 was a nice experience, extensions mostly worked right away. The performance improvement is noticeable, but other than that, the gui and browsing experience has seemed roughly 100% the same as 4.01. Hurray?
 
amdhunter

amdhunter

Lifer
May 19, 2003
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gevorg said:
I left Firefox for Chrome mainly because of memory issues. Will give FF another chance, they have more diverse extension selection.
Click to expand...

I actually liked Firefox when I tried it a few weeks ago. The only thing that made me go back to Chrome was that I couldn't find a proper Google Voice extension.

Any recommendations?
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
60,100
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126
What's a GoogleVoice extension? What does it do, or what would you like it to do?
 
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