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Originally Posted by Scott
Well compared to memory usage, IE uses 10-20MB of memory, FireFox used 40-60MB. As for CPU cycles, FireFox kept making my system "lag" and my music kept "skipping" because it used 100% CPU just to load a page up. Even scrolling down a page did the same thing, which IE doesn't do at all  |
Actually, IE will be using a helluva lot more memory than that, it's just that it's inextricably tied to the OS, so you've gotta take, for example, the memory usage of explorer.exe into consideration too.
Of course, you'd still be using that memory consumed by the kernel even if you used Firefox, so mebbe a fairer statement would be to say that 'IE uses 10-20MB more memory than the OS'.
As for CPU usage, I gotta say that I've not noticed any worse performance than IE... but who knows, maybe my machine is more streamlined and leanly configured than yours...?
On another note, FireFox is the first step in my evil master plan of getting the missus to switch completely to open source. She's just about accepted FireFox (after having one too many problems with IE), and is even thinking about using OpenOffice to write all her college lessons. If she carries on going at this rate, I reckon she'll be using Linux 100% of the time some time early next year
