try using k-meleon...it outdoes firefox 3.

FF3 was tested against IE7 here...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080317-firefox-3-goes-on-a-diet-eats-less-memory-than-ie-and-opera.html

I'm going to have to agree with the others that have said it's not a fair test comparing full releases to a bit. I rate this benchmark as time bandit.

It's pointless to test IE6/7 because nobody who' knows you can pick a browser would use them.
Clear now?


Interesting how you single out Safari and IE8 for your little quip about consuming all memory, considering IE8 was within only a few megabytes of half the browsers tested, while Safari was the only absurd one deserving of your comment. Not that I have any affinity for IE8 (I'm a FF3 user), but your baseless comment was notable.

What a pig.

What's the point in having RAM if you don't want your applications to use it?

Opera uses your RAM if its available, to make browsing faster. If it isn't then it won't. Unless the programme uses an inordinate amount of RAM (like Safari appears to be doing) then who cares?

It's like people who buy loads of power tools and mount them on the wall of their shed but never use them.

Talking of Safari, I thought Apples never needed fast CPUs or much RAM because the software was so much better and therefore didn't need it? I bought a PC with 512MB at the same time as a friend bought a Mac with 256MB and the story was that in 'real terms', the Mac had more memory than the PC. Utter tosh. Safari is proof they need more memory and the fact that Safari is a 23MB download while Opera is a fifth of that (Firfefox for Macs is also huge compared to the Windows version) is proof that they do need more storage too.

What happened to IE 6 or IE 7?

Its in apples best interest to make all their windows software as bloated and buggy as they can get away with. my making peoples PCs suck, they can say "pc suck, buy a mac".

Why else would they want to spend the time and money making free PC software?

internet explorer? well. you have to laugh, and wonder if all the rest of their stuff is coded like that (vista?) or maybe they really want people to buy a mac as well.

Reviewing the memory usage of a BETA product with ones that are already fully released. Gee, that's smart.

somebody doesn't like miscrosoft...

I'm no M$ fanboy, but don't you think it's a little unfair comparing full releases of browsers against a beta release of IE?

I love how safari is marketed and talked about as being "the fastest browser on the market." Well, it should be if its going to consume 650MB of memory! Thats rediculous... I use firefox at home and am restricted to IE at work and I think firefox is the best choice. I have never used Opera though, so I cannot comment on it.

Test? Hold on. It was a manual test with each browser. He doesn't say if he visited the same pages; or clicked on the same things; in fact it's insinuated he didn't. Heck he can't even remember if he went over 4 open windows or not.

When even slashdot laughs at a "benchmark" where fireferret comes out top then really you have to conclude the methodology is suspect.

Looking at the individual results Safari is the only poorly performing browser in that list. Looking at the results I'd actually say that there wasn't any noticable different between flock, opera and IE8. It's entirely possible that IE8's memory usage may stablise around that point but a plateau was never found within that limited test suite. Safari definately needs to be mocked, but i'm not entirely sure on the IE8 attack considering the stat's don't back this up and it's still in beta. Either way, kudos to Firefox 3, it looks to be an improvement on it's previous version (at least in memory management).

How is a data point every 3 seconds for 14 hours equivalent to "millions of datapoints".

You'd need to run that test suite 60 times to get over a million.

Loving Safari's appetite for memory best browser ever? maybe not. suppose the mac fan boys will give me a grilling for this.

Sheesh !!!
Safari = 636 MB ??

Most apple software sucks for the PC
plus Safari security is awful in the PC 

Apple should stick to Mac where they are good at...
Avoid Safari at all costs



just fully read the article, its FF3 with no extensions lol, bit unfair dont ya think ?? wtf use is foxylady without extensions O_o


does it really matter given the mucho cheepo price of ram :O)

what about CPU usage, im using ff3 to post this (when ya gonna fix this site to work with opera grrrrrrrrr) but when im back to opera (with ff3 still open doing nothing) every minute or so my drive is banging away for a few seconds and my CPU usage is up to 22% for foxylady, WTF's it doing ?? FFS im on a black edition dual @ 2.9 Ghz, 22% !!!!!!!!!!

you mention 4 browsers were tested. I either counted 5 or I'm having a mild stroke.

And the reason why real-world web browsers like Internet Explorer 6 or 7 were not tested is left to our imagination.

What drugs was this tester on?
Why test beta software like IE8?

Or is it because IE6/7 better than Firefox 3?

Tester's credibility I rate at zero.