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when did Chrome become such a pig?
- Thread starter bob4933
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Geeze!
Who knew that 14 tabs of dragonccave would take up 350+ Mb????
Forgot Chrome had a task manager. Thanks for reminding me!
@Bob
As it stands now, with 26 tabs open 24/7, Chrome is eating up 1.7 Gb of my RAM
Chrome is fast, but memory hungry it seems lol.
Totally worth it IMHO.
Since it was created, LOL? Being more serious, as you likely know, each tab is a separate process (for stability purposes) so that doesn't help things out much. FF seems to be the same way for me. And I haven't used IE in years so I cannot compare. But yeah, its a hog. But, unless you are looking, you wouldn't know it in most cases.
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Just happened across it yesterday, don't normally have much of a reason to look at ram usage normally. Just struck me as odd for a moment, good to see its normal.
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Firefox gets my nod at the present time. Mozilla seems to have gotten their flash player issues ironed out. Check this: http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/
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"Products" or product? They are competing products. What you say would only make sense of the review site had a vested interest in one of them.
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Diversity of Firefox add-ons keeps people loyal to Firefox.
I don't know why Google doesn't pay-off every Firefox add-on creator to make a Chrome version because a lot of people don't want to switch to Chrome because all their add-ons are not available for Chrome and they are so used to having them on Firefox. Also : ... man,
I don't know why Google doesn't pay-off every Firefox add-on creator to make a Chrome version because a lot of people don't want to switch to Chrome because all their add-ons are not available for Chrome and they are so used to having them on Firefox. Also :
... man,Chrome installation is scary. They don't tell you what version the file you are installing is, if you as much as touch the installation file, it installs itself "everywhere" without asking basic questions like where you want it installed, if you want it installed, and it immediately starts phoning home. You uninstall Chrome and Google Update is still pinging your firewall trying to send data out of your system... We've been complaining about Firefox a lot lately but at least eventually you can customize Firefox to do whatever you want it to do...
There's a distinct feeling of losing all control after you launch that Google Chrome setup... they may as well display "You're Ours Now!" right after you launch it
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Still would prefer Chrome over Firefox anyday. Even with the "phoning home" stuff.
Just that much faster and natural feeling to me.
But that's just me. Different strokes for different folks!
Just that much faster and natural feeling to me.
But that's just me. Different strokes for different folks!
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Removing Google's junk (IE Browser plugin, Google Earth, Google Update, Google Chrome) is akin to trying to remove viruses. If I had a dollar for every time I had to remove Google's stuff from a customer's system (when the customer didn't know how it got there, or didn't know it was there in the first place), I'd have quite a few dollars.
Wish they'd stop bundling their stuff with so many unrelated product installers, just because the software their bundling with is sponsored by them (or vice-verse).
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So I made the switch over to Chrome after the last few Firefox just refuse to stay open and randomly crash after watching 1 or 2 streaming videos, and, it has all the same or nearly same plugins available for it as I use in Firefox.
Now I see why Chrome is a pig. Currently 195 tabs in Chrome and it's taking about..... 9.1GB of ram.
And with everything else I have running (except my VMs), I'm sitting around 19.4GB ram in use. Who says that 32GiB isn't necessary in a home/gaming system?
Now I see why Chrome is a pig. Currently 195 tabs in Chrome and it's taking about..... 9.1GB of ram.
And with everything else I have running (except my VMs), I'm sitting around 19.4GB ram in use. Who says that 32GiB isn't necessary in a home/gaming system?
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So I made the switch over to Chrome after the last few Firefox just refuse to stay open and randomly crash after watching 1 or 2 streaming videos, and, it has all the same or nearly same plugins available for it as I use in Firefox.
Now I see why Chrome is a pig. Currently 195 tabs in Chrome and it's taking about..... 9.1GB of ram.
And with everything else I have running (except my VMs), I'm sitting around 19.4GB ram in use. Who says that 32GiB isn't necessary in a home/gaming system?
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