Comments on: Verdict on Google Chrome? – Memory Hog

By: Nicholas Baroni

Nicholas Baroni — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:40:35 +0000

I tested it too against Firefox and Safari and I’ll be sticking with Firefox. I’d like to try Chrome again in the future because it did seem very fast. I’ll need a faster computer though before I use it on a regular basis.

By: henry

henry — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:50:26 +0000

“Firefox definitely hogs a lot of memory. Yes. I’m sure. I can swear for that.” — Yeah Right. That was 1 and a half years ago. That beast I bet you’re using is Firefox 1.5.

Firefox 3 definitely uses much less memory. And update your addons and remove all of your plugins when you upgrade!

Old plugins, like Google toolbar and yahoo toolbar make firefox leak and crash. Addons are known to leak and leak and leak. Firefox 1.5 was known for huge caching in memory.

Chrome. I don’t care if I’m counting shared memory or not, Windows (not just task manager) definitely does not take that into account and enlarges my pagefile (even though Google Chrome’s memory claimed to have used 48M and Firefox 128 M). Killing Chrome saved up 180MB in Task manager and the page file shrunk right away. So shared memory doesn’t actually work. (at least in windows it doesn’t) A good program which isolated plugins through process and tab through threads would be much better.

By: MLD

MLD — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:18:32 +0000

I ended up here after a google search to see if others were finding Chrome to be a memory hog. I’m DEFINITELY a power user, usually having 2 windows, and 12-20 tabs, between the two. When I ran activity monitor (I’m on Mac), it was obvious that chrome was killing my memory. I think I’ll revert to FF for my heavy browsing and keep chrome for when I need an alternate browser open as well

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:10:00 +0000

I have the same problem with firefox, though.

Firefox 3 will routinely hog up to 2 gigs of memory on me with only a few (3-5) tabs if left open for more than a couple of hours.

I’m not saying you should switch to Chrome, I just think that we should stop considering Firefox as the height of perfection when in reality it’s as bad a memory hog as any other browser, maybe worse.

By: Mike Henry

Mike Henry — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:49:12 +0000

Big brother can’t keep tabs on you then!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:20:39 +0000

Never mind shared memory! I had ~10 tabs open a couple of days ago, and suddenly everything on my PC slowed to a crawl! So I did ctrl-alt-del and when Task Manager appeared (60-90 seconds later!), my swap file was a whopping 1.5 GIG!!

However, when I terminated Chrome, it went back to just a few hundred meg.

I’m going back to Firefox!

By: diego

diego — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:59:51 +0000

from the Chromium Blog: http://blog.chromium.org/

Measuring memory

If you’re measuring memory in a multi-process application like Google Chrome, don’t forget to take into account shared memory. If you add the size of each process via the Windows XP task manager, you’ll be double counting the shared memory for each process. If there are a large number of processes, double-counting can account for 30-40% extra memory size.

To make it easy to summarize multi-process memory usage, Google Chrome provides the “about:memory” page which includes a detailed breakdown of Google Chrome’s memory usage and also provides basic comparisons to other browsers that are running.

By: chrome-hater

chrome-hater — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:53:09 +0000

Chrome IS a memory hog!

By: Ravyn

Ravyn — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:25:43 +0000

I agree with some of this especially the fact that there needs to be more plugins developed for Chrome but I do not see it as a memory hog. I just ran my own test. Five tabs open in FireFox takes up 123,900 K and 5 tabs open in Chrome is only taking up 16,400 K. Sorry but all I’ve seen so far is that Chrome sucks up SIGNIFICANTLY less memory than any other browser. It may be a light weight now since it has no plugins and RSS support is week but it is definitely NOT a memory hog.

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