Mika
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Google Chrome: Not Really Faster?
05:20:18 pm on September 2, 2008
I gotta admit, Google’s Chrome browser looks really cool, and is quite responsive… most of the time.
When I use firefox, I limit it to 75 Meg. of memory usage so it doesn’t kill my computer in case something starts getting out of whack. I don’t know if there’s a way to do this in Chrome - maybe? Anyway, today I’ve been using both FF and Chrome with heavy preference to Chrome. I’ve been trying to use it in almost every way I normally use FF. Occasionally something depends on a plugin I have in FF so I gotta boot that up too.
While doing this, I noticed that my computer - not so much the browser - is slow enough in other tasks to notice it. Say, booting up Photoshop. That takes a bit of extra effort with a minor ‘hang’ in there too. That’s not all - MS Excel, Word and others behave about the same.
Then I check out the task manager:
Looks like Chrome is eating up a healthy total 239,276 K of memory when you combine all the processes. It is SLOWING DOWN my computer, but the browser is still nice and speedy. Add a few more tabs, even it starts to slow down and take a while for screens to render when switching between already open sites in different windows or tabs.
Now, this is after an extensive 1/2 day of using it, but Firefox hasn’t behaved like this for me - ever. Verdict: Chrome is good, but not yet perfected… obviously.
Anyone have any suggestions on capping memory usage?