octoberasian
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Ok, this is more of an observational post than asking for help since my friend, on OSX and using Chrome, was curious how much better is IE 11 lately.
I showed him this for Internet Explorer 11 (Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit):
That's 5 tabs opened only:
Then, we get to Chrome 31:
This is with 100 tabs opened and 24 extensions enabled, along with hardware rendering. That's 1.143GB RAM and between 3% to 12% CPU usage.
And then, we get to Firefox 25.0.1:
This is with 463 tabs opened and 27 extensions enabled. But, Firefox was the biggest culprit when it came to CPU usage. Opening a blank new tab, reloading an existing tab, or opening a new website in a new tab caused the CPU to spike to 27% before dropping back down to as low as 3%. It usually hovered between 3% to 8% CPU usage normally.
RAM steadily rose and peaked at 1.3GB of RAM, going no higher.
(And, yes, 463 tabs.)
However, this was the least stable browser out of the three that I've used so far. If Firefox went above 2GB of RAM or peaked to 3GB, it'll crash immediately.
What I'm curious though: Why is only 5 tabs opened in IE 11 (desktop, non-Metro) causing 12% average CPU usage and 1GB of RAM already?
It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen in a web browser. Even my friend was surprised that IE 11 was doing this when Chrome with 20 times the opened tabs and extensions enabled was using just as much RAM.
Has anyone noticed similar resource usage allotments with these browsers?
I showed him this for Internet Explorer 11 (Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit):
That's 5 tabs opened only:
- [H]ardForum
- 3 Minecraft wiki pages
- Dropbox account page
Then, we get to Chrome 31:
This is with 100 tabs opened and 24 extensions enabled, along with hardware rendering. That's 1.143GB RAM and between 3% to 12% CPU usage.
And then, we get to Firefox 25.0.1:
This is with 463 tabs opened and 27 extensions enabled. But, Firefox was the biggest culprit when it came to CPU usage. Opening a blank new tab, reloading an existing tab, or opening a new website in a new tab caused the CPU to spike to 27% before dropping back down to as low as 3%. It usually hovered between 3% to 8% CPU usage normally.
RAM steadily rose and peaked at 1.3GB of RAM, going no higher.
(And, yes, 463 tabs.)
However, this was the least stable browser out of the three that I've used so far. If Firefox went above 2GB of RAM or peaked to 3GB, it'll crash immediately.
What I'm curious though: Why is only 5 tabs opened in IE 11 (desktop, non-Metro) causing 12% average CPU usage and 1GB of RAM already?
It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen in a web browser. Even my friend was surprised that IE 11 was doing this when Chrome with 20 times the opened tabs and extensions enabled was using just as much RAM.
Has anyone noticed similar resource usage allotments with these browsers?