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Originally Posted by Bifta
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Originally Posted by Richard M
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Most of that is probably system files being updated that you'd be running in the background regardless of what browser you're using, look at the task manager screenshot I posted, IE uses less memory than Firefox, FACT. |
You'd have to concede though, that IE has more of an advantage in that a lot of its files are used by XP itself so as a stand-alone process, it doesn't need to load as much.
Firefox has practically nil integration with the OS itself so needs to load all its components... which takes time and RAM.
Not saying whether or not it's an advantage- in any case this is practically a duplicate argument.
BTW Bifta... your screenshot has just made me change XP to olive green as well. Can't stand the bloo and I was getting bored of the silver, so I dunno where I'll go next... probably back to silver...