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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

You're probably right; Javascript no doubt contributes. It's probably a little of both.

So, let's test!

Firefox, with all add-ons disabled, and with ten tabs open to the oldest website on earth is reporting a memory usage of 318 MiB...which is actually pretty high, all things considered!

Chromium, identical scenario, consumes a whopping 1205 MiB (1.18 GiB!) of memory, across 14 processes. And that's a fresh-installation of the browser, no extensions. In my book, that's inexcusable.

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Ghost

OMG, really, Chromium eats that much!, wow, that's one of the reasons I don't use it for other than testing. 318MB is no small footprint either. That's why I really appreciate websites that can be viewed without JS. I used Dillo as long as I could but nowadays almost all sites are unusable with it.

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Marko Shiva

There is Falkon nowdays you can try it especially if you use linux.

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Ghost

Thanks, I'll check it out and of course I use Linux, I'm cool like that :D (not Arch tho)

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Nihar Raote

Chrome just uses so much RAM, I refrain from using it for anything other than the dev tools. If Firefox improves their dev tools to that level, or even better, I'd immediately remove Chrome from my system.