Comments on: 1,075,500 reasons I switched from FireFox to Chrome

By: film fan

film fan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:21:31 +0000

there are so many advantages and features with Chrome, such as it’s speed, for example; now if only they would take care it’s quirky cookie management…

By: PG

PG — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:31:41 +0000

Yeah, I’m running multiple tabs, plugins, etc., and it’s only 150k.

By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:25:38 +0000

that’s convincing enough for me to switch. I usually run firefox behind video games and had no idea it was being such a resource hog!!!! Now that Google pulled their heads out of their butts and changed the user agreement I’m switching to Chrome!

By: Gadgetress

Gadgetress — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:04:07 +0000

Thanks all. I’ll be monitoring the plug-ins, one of the best features of FF. Who knows? Maybe I’ll switch back one day. — Gadgetress

By: mike

mike — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:53:17 +0000

Gadgetress,

If that is Firefox 3.1 you’re running I would do what Mark suggested and check on the plugins you are running. How many tabs did you have open at the time of that screenshot? just curious. I have 4 tabs open and a second firefox window with another couple of tabs and I’m only using 137k – before I upgraded to Firefox 3.1 I was using as much ram as you posted…so i’m guessing it’s the plugins?

By: Gadgetress

Gadgetress — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:52:00 +0000

That was Firefox 3.1 !!– Gadgetress

By: Michael Doss

Michael Doss — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:40:03 +0000

Firefox 3.1 is supposed to fix a lot of the memory problems with the current version. This won’t change how the process-thread issue, but it’ll be an improvement.

I’m currently running Firefox with 6 tabs, and it’s only taking up 200K — I’m still waiting for a little more secure version of Chrome.