| Timothy Miller |
11-09-2015 01:12 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Alex
(Post 5447028)
jamison20000e, Firefox is single-threaded, which is a giant flaw with today's computers. And 8 GB of RAM is A LOT for browser. Plus it's hard to trace RAM usage of a program in Linux (there are some articles about it out there). So people who see in {h,}top memory usage don't see real numbers. But when you have average office computer, you can compare speed of browsers by simply using them (I mean how fast browsers feel). Today we have 4-, 6-, 8-cores in CPUs. Chromium uses them all. Firefox uses only one.
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If he's using nightly aurora, then multiprocess (Electrolysis or e10's in Firefox speak) has been enabled since May, so he very well might have it running in multi-process. |
