Google Chrome Memory Usage

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Browsing to about:memory in Google Chrome gives you this interesting display showing memory usage for both itself as well as other browsers running.

According to the browser, this is the memory usage of the following browsers on blank pages. (Although Chrome is on the about:memory page, that’s a different process, as shown below, so that doesn’t mess things up.)

Browser	Total Memory (kb)
Google Chrome 0.2	39,928
Internet Explorer 8 beta 2	62,726
Firefox 3.1b1	76,056
Opera 9.52	20,124
Safari 3.1.1	45,356

In other words, Opera still uses the least, but Google Chrome is easily in second place, followed by Safari, IE and then Firefox.

Just an interesting nugget of information!

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Published: September 2, 2008

Filed Under: software

Tags: Google : Google Chrome : Internet Explorer 8 : Mozilla Firefox : Safari : Web browser

http://www.matsie.net matsie

Hmm. This is pretty interesting. I'm doing my test drive of Google Chrome right. So far, it seems pretty darn fast and isn't taxing my system.
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Yeah, it's quick isn't it!
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Yes…its QUICK…!
But…even though it´s according to these information using little memory…somehow with CHROM running my memory usage climbs up. I tried to find the reason and could not find the source…
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Remember that this is just on first boot, and doesn't simulate browsing at all.

Flash takes up a huge amount of memory, as does Adobe Acrobat – both use about 3 times as much as Chrome it seems, so they might be the culprits.
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Syfer

Would someone tell me why there are two or three processes for Chrome running on my PC? But over all it is fast, well with a GB of RAM it is bound to be fast
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That's how it's designed, each tab and plugin gets it's own process. That way, if one crashes it won't crash the whole browser.

Read this for more details: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_…
Sér

Your test doesn't make any sense, my firefox is using only 34mb. I did the same thing as you, but I don't have opera and safari installed atm.

IE 7.00.6000.16705 22,084k
Chromium 0.2.152.1 26,350k
Firefox 3.0.1 34,868k

You MUST consider things like addons, history, etc. Maybe even how big your favorites list is.

Yes, Google Chrome is a lot faster than Firefox. Yes, Google Chrome offers some nice features. Nevertheless it's still in beta (like Gmail has been for too long time imo) and it's an very early stage of public development to say “hey, it is faster!!” or “it uses less memory than that other browser”.
Sér

Just did the same thing with Firefox 3.1a2 and it also uses only 30mb
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Eduardo

Your test FAIL!

How much replications ? What is the criteria to use this workload ? Scientifically and experimentally and empirically FAIL at all points.
Sarah

Thank you very much for this post! I was looking for the lowest memory browser available since I have an older PC currently and like to do multiple tasks at once, like having Photoshop, foobar2k or a game open while also being able to have a browser open. I didn't realize there was such a huge leap in memory usage data from browser to browser. Firefox just eats up memory!
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anyway, i move from chome users to a opera users, why?? b’cz chrome using my RAM too much, one tab in chrome use each part of memories, as you shud know, im using 1GB RAM, but when i open 10 tabs on my browser (chrome) my computer crashed and i get disconnected from internet. yea, sure it’s so damn fast, and i agreed with it but fast sometime have bad effects to others. firefox still the best browser to me.
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