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Ilander · 10-15-2008, 11:06 AM

Firefox 2 was certainly faster than 3...and I never had firefox 2 crash in the way that 3 has multiple times for me...

That said, I can tell that Chrome has better memory management than Firefox, thanks to its one-tab, one-process policy...which may be the most ingenious that I've heard of in a while, with respect to browsers.

I'm actually surprised other programs don't do that...like, Photoshop, for instance...last I heard, while CS3 was somewhat multi-threaded, it was still one process, and as such, when you close one picture, you inherently get a slightly bigger memory leak than if the OS closed a thread...

Well...that's my understanding of it, anyway.

...of course, the downside is that we all have to learn how to "kill process tree" in the task manager.

10-15-2008, 11:06 AM	#9
Ilander 20th Level Warrior Join Date: December 28, 2003 Location: Kentucky Age: 38 Posts: 2,820	Re: So, most of you are probably using Firefox by now... Firefox 2 was certainly faster than 3...and I never had firefox 2 crash in the way that 3 has multiple times for me... That said, I can tell that Chrome has better memory management than Firefox, thanks to its one-tab, one-process policy...which may be the most ingenious that I've heard of in a while, with respect to browsers. I'm actually surprised other programs don't do that...like, Photoshop, for instance...last I heard, while CS3 was somewhat multi-threaded, it was still one process, and as such, when you close one picture, you inherently get a slightly bigger memory leak than if the OS closed a thread... Well...that's my understanding of it, anyway. ...of course, the downside is that we all have to learn how to "kill process tree" in the task manager. __________________ Is that what you really want to say?