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burninmylight on 22 January 2015
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Normchacho said:
We get it Microsoft, Halo is an Xbox exclusive, you can stop naming everything after it now.

Oh, and if it's just going to be like chrome, why would I stop using chrome?


My thoughts exactly!

Shinobi-san said:
RenCutypoison said:
Kerotan said:


I don't have any of those issues. The only program that eats RAM on my PC is Skype and IE actually uses a shit load even though it's never used. ANd I'm afraid to delete it because I heard it messes windows up if you do. 


When I'm talking multi tabs it's between 10-128, chrome uses 50-250 mb per tab while firefox takes about 1.5GB with a hundred tabs.

Don't delete IE, a few windows functions and MS softwares use it. The best one can do is hide it as much as he can.

So true with regards to Chrome eating up RAM. Just about every day i need to research stuff and i end up with over 20 tabs daily. On my work PC, which has 4gb of RAM, Chrome can barely run at that point.

I noticed Firefox handles it somewhat better.

When it comes to dev features though I would say Chrome gets the nod ahead of Firefox.

I'm glad they are dropping Internet Explorer...hopefully they build a light weight browser from the ground up.

There's an add-on for FireFox called Memory Fox that will drop it's RAM usage even further. It's not as useful as it was back before FF 15 and 17 (when FF was the biggest RAM  hog out there) because Mozilla drastically cleaned up the memory leaking issue with those versions, but my home laptops have always appreciated the extra RAM, even my current one (Windows 8.1 with 6GB of RAM).

hsrob said:
Kerotan said:
Ljink96 said:

Too funny:D

IE sucks ballz. Firefox is the way. Ant Video extention, adblock=perfect internet.

Adblock equals millions of people not making a living. Thank god most don't use it

I consider ad-block exceptions for websites I use regularly but Vgchartz (for example) has ads that are so ridiculously intrusive and resource intensive that I simply don't consider it an option.

Same here. I also use an extension called NoScript that is even more strict than AB+. Every once in a while, I'll temporarily allow all the ads here on VGC just to have a heart, but all that happens is that I'm reminded why I keep blocking them. I wish everyone could see the difference between loading a VGC page ad-free versus loading one with dozens and dozens of cross-site scripts and background ads burdening things down.