Now that Chrome seems to be getting a bit more bloated and Firefox seems to be t...

tristanperry · on March 19, 2012

I use Chrome as my main browser. I see no bloat at all?

In my experience, IE is losing bloat, Chrome started with a bit of bloat but quickly lost it, whilst Firefox has had bloat for a while.

tomjen3 · on March 19, 2012

I don't think Chrome is getting bloated -- I don't care how much space it takes up, it still feels snappy.

wahnfrieden · on March 19, 2012

Where is Chrome's bloat?

rpearl · on March 19, 2012

Chrome's memory usage is[1] (and always has been[2]) very high and has been steadily getting worse where Firefox has been getting better and better thanks to the memshrink project[3]

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!...

[2] http://techpp.com/2011/09/28/chrome-14-vs-firefox-7-memory-f...

[3] https://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/ talks about it frequently

sek · on March 19, 2012

I don't care about memory, i have 8GB and i am not somebody who has 500 tabs open. What i care about is independent processes. When a site freezes the rest is unaffected. The same with Icognito Mode, this is a total joke on Firefox.

What counts in the end is speed, security and api's.

redthrowaway · on March 19, 2012

>When a site freezes the rest is unaffected.

Interestingly, however, when Flash crashes on one tab it crashes on all of them.

cpeterso · on March 19, 2012

Chrome has just one plugin process. All tab processes share the same plugin process, so if one Flash crash will take all Flash.

epochwolf · on March 19, 2012

That's because flash is a single process in all tabs. It's more of a problem with the way flash is designed.

Splines · on March 19, 2012

Anecdotal evidence, but over the last month I've seen Chrome not work on a few websites (broken js) and have seen the crashes due to flash a few times too. Recent changes have not been for the better.

I've recently switched back to FF and found that it worked in the places that Chrome didn't.