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Other => Computer stuff => Topic started by: Mo on May 26, 2008, 04:21:27 PM

Title: Browsers!
Post by: Mo on May 26, 2008, 04:21:27 PM

Is this normal for memory usage? lol

Firefox is barely better and worse with respect to CPU usage.  Although I see different cases from computer to computer.

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Title: Re: Browsers!
Post by: 420 on May 26, 2008, 10:56:53 PM

Firefox takes up around 24-28k memory and 0-8 CPU on my XP system. Internet Explorer takes up about the same.

-420

Title: Re: Browsers!
Post by: Mo on May 26, 2008, 11:12:23 PM

We obviously use our browsers in a way fashion :P

Title: Re: Browsers!
Post by: Tea-cup on May 28, 2008, 10:23:25 AM

In my case, gecko based browsers take a few MB and 0% cpu.  I bet you had a shitload of tabs open at the moment you took that screenshot of your task manager.  If not, then it is abnormal.

- Mel

Title: Re: Browsers!
Post by: Mo on May 28, 2008, 10:43:29 AM

Maybe a dozen or so tabs.  The problems with these browsers is that even after you close a tab it doesn't clean up the memory properly.  I hardly restart my browsers, so after a while they start taking up quite a bit of memory.  Though I've never seen it that high!

Title: Re: Browsers!
Post by: Tea-cup on May 29, 2008, 04:46:30 PM

About 25 streamed videos (10-30 minutes length) in tabs + a few hundred other tabs was what I needed to get 1GB memory usage from my browser.  The operating system is windows 2000 sp4.

- Mel

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Title: Re: Browsers!
Post by: Mo on May 29, 2008, 05:01:02 PM

Keep using that browser instance for 2 weeks and take another screenshot.

Title: Re: Browsers!
Post by: Tea-cup on May 29, 2008, 06:26:58 PM

The instance is 8 days old.  (I am not watching that much streamed video)
But.. is this browser related or operating system related?  I use the same browser on linux/unix and had a browser instance running for a few months.  With 512MB ram and no swap space.

- Mel

Title: Re: Browsers!
Post by: Mo on May 30, 2008, 09:26:16 AM

Quote from: Tea-cup on May 29, 2008, 06:26:58 PM

is this browser related or operating system related?

Probably a combination of both.  I haven't tried Seamonkey at all?  Is it just a modified version of Mozilla?  How is it modified?

Title: Re: Browsers!
Post by: Tea-cup on May 30, 2008, 07:29:38 PM

When looking at performance, I bet there is not much difference between all the gecko-engine based browsers.
I use seamonkey cause it has better security and recent updates.  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Mozilla
Other differences between them are hard to point out, that seamonkey looks and feels like mozilla is the very reason why I use it.

- Mel

Title: Re: Browsers!
Post by: Soul Sojourner on June 25, 2008, 08:08:02 PM

SeaMonkey? Isn't that one of those all-in-one software deals? You know, like Creative Suite by Adobe is.