Safari seems to 'prefetch' websites, perhaps that contributes to its RAM usage.

Not comparing apples with apples (sic) chrome forks a new process for each tab so if you add the memory consumption of each chrome render to the main chrome process its not that different to safari

A bit of lazy reviewing methinks......

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vondrashek

... or you would have noticed that the browser hard crashes on any page with flash products in it. The same is not true with Google Chrome or Firefox on the same setup.

I still use Firefox for the extensions that I use, until another browser offers the same extension set as I use, then Firefox is going to continue to be my browser of choice.

"Similar add-on schemes have resulted in Firefox users clinging to their memory munching, cumbersome browser even when alternatives offered a leaner browser experience."

"Even pitted against the benchmark of bloat, Firefox..."

Actually, Firefox currently uses less RAM than any other major browser, including Safari, Opera, Chrome, and IE.

http://lifehacker.com/5575407/browser-speed-tests-safari-5-firefox-36-and-opera-106-beta

Safari is a Cocoa app and it uses the Core Animation API, it takes advantage of GPU acceleration as far back as OS X Leopard.

http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/apptech.html

Even if you don't know the technical background it should have been fairly obvious that Safari has GPU acceleration on the Mac when you consider it makes use of Cover Flow for browsing the history, as well as other graphical effects when viewing RSS feeds, Top Sites, reader mode, etc.

Even the folks of Adobe are trying to tap into the fact that Safari is GPU accelerated, their Flash plugin as of version 10.1 has some support for GPU acceleration now -

http://www.kaourantin.net/2010/02/core-animation.html