Chrome, Firefox, IE10 Comparison w/Poll What Browser do you use? Comments on why, are welcome, but not necessary. Out of my own curiosity, I made a little comparison of the top 3 browsers, Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer10, ie; CPU usage and Memory usage. Every browser works differently on every machine, too many variables to get in depth here. I made this comparison for myself as I had noticed that out of the three I mentioned, I want to use the best one for my needs and the one that uses the least amount of Memory & CPU overall. My Comparison: Starting with /Google Chrome[/url] Using Task Manager; Running Chrome with 1 add-on
Very impressed with low running App Memory of only 69.9MB's and 0% CPU usage, however, Chrome has 9 running processes using 510.2MB's of memory, plus the 69.9MB's, equals a total of 580.1MB's Running Firefox with 9 add-ons. 2 extensions & 7 plugins;
Extremely impressive with a total of 154MB's Memory usage, 0 running processes and only .5% CPU usage. Again, you will note that Chrome still has 2 running background processes. Each Browser was used 1 at a time. Next will show all 3 browsers open at the same time;
Chrome using a total of 214.3MB's memory & 8.3% CPU Firefox using a total of 199.4MB's memory & 5.7% CPU Internet Explorer10 using a total of 159.5MB's memory & 3.6% CPU FF & IE10 meet my needs, where Chrome lacks the ability to use/show the Menu Bar and by this comparison on my machine, seems to be quite the memory hog. Looks like I'm leaning to switch to IE10