Google Chrome Memory Usage

by Richard Bradshaw

Google Chrome Memory Usage, originally uploaded by Rich Bradshaw.

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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