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Re:Firefox Hello – Browse the Web with Friends by bitmapbrother on Friday April 22, 2016 @01:46PM (#11550974)
What makes you think Edge is less resource hungry than Chrome? Last time I checked the resources used by Edge it was similar to Chrome and even worse in some cases. Any browser that implements a process-per-tab architecture is going to consume significantly more resources than one that doesn't.

Visiting The Verge, Hacker News and Ars Technica yields the following usage:

  Windows:
  Chome 51: 337MB
  Edge: 399MB

  Mac:
  Safari: 396MB
  Chrome: 452MB
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Re:Firefox Hello – Browse the Web with Friends by callahad on Friday April 22, 2016 @02:23PM (#11551346)
We're pretty consistently seeing Edge use fewer resources than Chrome, though there might be measurement challenges. Here's one recent benchmark: http://www.erahm.org/2016/02/12/are-they-slim-yet/
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Re:Firefox Hello – Browse the Web with Friends by barnacs on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:40PM (#11552054)
About 15 years ago a fraction of that memory was enough to run an OS and open two news sites and a forum with the same functionality.

Something went terribly wrong along the way...

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Re:Firefox Hello – Browse the Web with Friends by bitmapbrother on Friday April 22, 2016 @06:05PM (#11552861)
15 years ago the average PC had a CPU < 1 GHz and less than 1 GB of memory. Everything is relative.
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