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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by cbd1984 on Friday December 12, 2014 @11:17PM (#8744125)
IME, Chrome is slower in terms of UI responsiveness, especially when starting up (massive disk usage) and switching tabs/making new tabs (pegs at least one core of my CPU, whole browser goes catatonic).
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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by singlow on Friday December 12, 2014 @11:34PM (#8744161)
IME chrome is faster when I have enough RAM. I have a notebook with 16G of memory and Chrome runs great on it- seems quicker than Firefox. But on my workstation I only have 8G and usually have more things fighting for it. When memory is low Chrome gets unusable but Firefox keeps going along at its not-quite-as-fast-as-chrome-with-enough-memory pace.
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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by mrottenkolber on Saturday December 13, 2014 @11:45AM (#8745535)
16G and chrome runs great on it. What the shit guys.
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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by mschuster91 on Saturday December 13, 2014 @05:43PM (#8746749)
Usually chrome's UI stickyness goes away when you either buy more RAM or install a SSD instead of a HDD. Chrome's disk usage is crazy.
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