Something is seriously wrong with Firefox
Here’s a screenshot of Windows Task Manager showing CPU utilization and Memory usage for both Firefox and Opera.
Both the browsers were started at the same time. Exact same websites have been fired in the 8 tabs of each browser window. Default themes, no plugins/extensions. Both the browsers used are in their latest release.
Makes you wonder what’s big deal about firefox. I accept it’s ten times better than plain IE6/7. But these figures do suggest something. That something, in my opinion, is that Firefox is a lot about hype. If there was any other program with such insane memory usage or CPU utilization (11-percent!), it would have been bashed beyond limits.
Opera continues to be my preferred choice of browser. It offers a lot more than just web-browsing and fetches better returns for your 4MB of download still. So, Opera does everything and I should stick to it. Only if life was so simple. But you need more than 1 browser, and firefox is the next best. So, you need it too. But this thing has some serious flaws (continued memory leaks in every other version to name one) and incapabilites. Mozilla, fix something!
August 24th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I have IE7 as my backup browser ,have’nt downloaded FF for a long long time now.
I am addicted to Opera no way anyboy is taking it away from me.
August 26th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
i’m an opera addict since time immemorial (ok ok.. thats going too overboard… since version 6 or so….) and i must say i need the backup browser (ie7) only when certain sites refuse to be rendered on it. but in linux, its opera all the way
September 5th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Finally someone blogged about it. It is not only hype my dear friend it is a cult out there. Try pointing this out in the mozillazine help forums. They will all pounce on you like it is all your fault.
I am getting sometimes 48 usage(even right now I checked) when just clicking on firefox with taskmanager open.
It hangs crashes and it is reminding me of IE.
The reason why I am still using it because I am addicted to it. I am so comfortable that i just cannot switch to opera. If i could get session manager. Lasfocus tab. Resize window to web standard resolutions and search tabs and youtube downloaders I will switch happily.
Opera just rocks