Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm...
by kasabali on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:50AM
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> Chrome was light years ahead of Firefox in both cpu and memory use for years
No it wasn't.
Firefox has always been significantly better at memory usage than Chrome. Here is a benchmark from 2012 [0] and Firefox's memory usage only went down after that [1]. On the other hand Chrome is infamous for its extravagant RAM usage ([2] and million other web search results). Only in the last few years Google have started to pay attention to Chrome's memory use.
[0] Chrome was light years ahead of Firefox in both cpu and memory use for years
No it wasn't.
Firefox has always been significantly better at memory usage than Chrome. Here is a benchmark from 2012 [0] and Firefox's memory usage only went down after that [1]. On the other hand Chrome is infamous for its extravagant RAM usage ([2] and million other web search results). Only in the last few years Google have started to pay attention to Chrome's memory use.
[0] Chrome was light years ahead of Firefox in both cpu and memory use for years
[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink
[2] https://lifehacker.com/why-chrome-uses-so-much-freaking-ram-...