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Random lnsanity / Re: Firefox users are basically not capable of rational thought anymore.
« on: February 17, 2011, 05:32:41 pm »
To elaborate, FF's problem isn't just memory use. It handles resources...eh, average. It's that it has what are called memory leaks. Basically, idiot programmers who can't manage their pointers end up leaving large swaths of memory reserved but unused, with the OS unable to clear it until the program closes. In fact, Chrome should, at any given time, be using more resources than FF because it splits tabs into processes (provided that FF didn't suck and leak memory like crazy, mind you). However, because tabs are processes, even if memory leaks were rampant in Chrome, they would be cleared whenever the offending tab was closed. That is where Chrome beats FF, in its ability to use resources more intelligently and cleanly.
tl;dr: In a perfect world, FF would actually use less resources, but because it's so badly coded it can't even hope to, and will always lose out to Chrome in real world comparisons.
tl;dr: In a perfect world, FF would actually use less resources, but because it's so badly coded it can't even hope to, and will always lose out to Chrome in real world comparisons.
