I continue to use Firefox 3.6.16 strictly because I keep 50-100 tabs open at a time and I use the BarTab add-on. The BarTab add-on unloads tabs after a configurable amount of time and reloads them only when needed. This reduces my CPU and RAM consumption by 90% in most cases and stops the drive from thrashing. I tried Chrome and Firefox 4 but nothing is as efficient for me as Firefox 3.6.16 with BarTab. Brian Lawrence _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Brian Wood Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 9:48 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [tclug-list] What browser do you use? I've been using Firefox 3.6.13 and have recently started using Chrome after using Chrome once previously. One frequently encountered scrolling-related bug I was having with Firefox went away with Chrome. One reason I decided to take another look at Chrome was my browsing tends to use a lot of my resources. Firefox seems to be multi-threaded as the top program gives a one liner for Firefox that makes it easy to tell how much resource it is using. Chrome though seems to use a separate process for each tab and that makes it a pain to compare how much resource it is using to do the same thing I was doing with Firefox. There's another aspect to Chrome I like so don't really think I'll go back to Firefox soon, but I'm not really sure if Chrome is using less resources than Firefox. I also recall hearing about an upcoming Firefox release that will be more efficient than previous Firefox releases. Thanks in advance. -- Brian Wood Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net (651) 251-9384 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110418/f56aa492/attachment.html>