30th
Browser War, Refreshed
Firefox 3.5 is out as of today. I haven’t spun it much, but it sounds nice. I stopped using Firefox because it was just too slow, and I’m glad to hear that improvement on the waiting-forever front is much of the 0.5 difference between 3 and 3.5.
Anyway, I might give Firefox another chance but in the meantime I’m reading tech reviews. This guy says Firefox is the leanest machine on memory usage and that guy says Chrome still bests the new Firefox 3.5 in Javascript (which is really what the internet is all about nowadays, isn’t it). And that makes sense because, if I’m understand correctly, Chrome keeps tabs separate (and independent) in behind-the-scenes computerland so one bad tab doesn’t bring down all the entire house — that redundancy is gonna be expensive RAM-wise and explains why Chrome is dead last in multi-tabbed memory usage.
So, in theory, if your computer is short on processor power (to better javascript render you, my dear), then maybe Chrome might be the better choice whereas if RAM is in really short supply, Firefox 3.5 might be your web-driving Prius. But in reality these two factors are hardly the biggest for most people.
