Firefox and more: browser memory usage
Firefox 3.5 dominates in memory efficiency. Average usage in this benchmark puts Firefox at more than 3x better than Chrome and about 2x more efficient than both Safari and Opera.
Yes. Firefox 3.5 is a monumental improvement over previous versions. Prior to v3.5, it was necessary for me to frequently restart Firefox (I even wrote a script to automate as a one-click process) as after awhile, I would be subjected to a liberal dosage of spinning beachballs. Now I can boost my Google Reader feed total to 1500+ without fear of breaking my browser!
AFAIC, Firefox still leads the browser pack. Safari 4 made some nice strides, but it lacks needed plugins (specifically for me, developer tools like Firebug) and while slightly snappier than Firefox (though Firefox 3.5 gained a speedup almost on par) and is buggy/incomplete in the one feature I must have now — full-page zoom on a per-domain basis and more essentially, one without mouse pointer bugs (i.e., on a Flash application, if you resize on Safari, the mouse point and click actions are erroneously offset).
Sounds like it’s time to switch back from Safari 4.
