Skunkworks » google browser http://www.skunkworks.ro Master of many trades. Solutions for your IT related problems. Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:33:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Google Chrome vs Firefox http://www.skunkworks.ro/2008/12/google-chrome-vs-firefox/ http://www.skunkworks.ro/2008/12/google-chrome-vs-firefox/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:08:38 +0000 Tudor http://localhost/sk2/?p=141 [...]]]> Today I installed the out of beta Google Chrome to see if they improved since I’ve looked at the software. It seems to me that Google Chrome is in a worse state than before. I am not seeing any speed advantages over Firefox 3.0 with a lot of extensions and the worst part it actually uses a lot more memory than Firefox. Below you have 2 screenshots to prove my point.

In both browsers I opened Google Reader, Notebook, Gmail, Docs and Calendar.

As you can see the Chrome processes are using a total of around 167 MB of memory and almost the same amount of Virtual memory.

Firefox and Firefox Portable use around 120 MB of RAM and around 140MB of virtual memory.

When I have 3 GB of RAM on my Windows XP computer, these differences are nothing more than just a little annoyance, but I really do not like the fact that Google is going the Microsoft way of doing software. And when you think there are people that are saying that Firefox is bloatware since version 2.0

It seems to me that Google rushed the product. Not sure the reasons behind, but Chrome is still a long way from being a Firefox replacement or at least competitor and for the time being Firefox is the browser to beat.

Again like the first time I uninstalled Chrome in under a hour since installation. Now I am waiting for the Google Update process to kill itself :) .

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