Sunday, October 01, 2017

Thank you come again.

Mozilla have claimed that their 57.x beta of Firefox (aka 'Quantum') uses 30% less memory than Google Chrome / other webkit browsers.

Try ~10x more (6th column is RSS):

darth  72483   0.0  0.6   5363724  77964  ?? S  4:30 PM  0:0.82 /Applications/Opera.app/ ...

darth   68443  1.1  0.3  5186124   81456  ?? S 4:25 PM  0:00.43 /Applications/Google Chrome.app/...

darth  92101  0.0  4.2  7095508  708936  ?? S 4:57 PM  11:31.62  /Applications/Firefox Beta.app/...

(All browsers open on news.google.com)