How much memory does your browser use?

[Windows i7 920]

I'm running the latest version of Google Chrome. It is only using 33 MB with several tabs open. I wash shocked when I saw that it was that low.

 

[StalkeR]

Firefox 3.6.12 with 6 open tabs

 

[yowanvista]

FF4b7 uses 356MB with 17 open tabs

 

[brianzion]

google chrome 9.0.576.0 dev
878,233k

 

[whs]

IE = 93mb

 

[pparks1]

I use firefox and it uses far less RAM than I have installed in my machine. It's about 90MB right now with a few different tabs open. No biggie.

 

[1337]

FF is chewing 200~300 MB around times with about 3~5 tabs opened for me.

 

[mickey megabyte]

"How much memory does your browser use?"

mine doesn't use a fixed amount - it changes all the time depending on how many tabs i have open and what i'm doing in them.

 

[stve]

I'm running the latest version of Google Chrome. It is only using 33 MB with several tabs open. I wash shocked when I saw that it was that low.

Are you sure you are including the memory the tabs are using ?
In Google enter about:memory into the address bar
A bonus is it will also tell you the memory other browsers are using. Its fairly complicated
so read this first
Memory Usage Backgrounder - The Chromium Projects

 

[Maxxwire]

Opera 11 Alpha 2 opens at 33.5 MB RAM, 46.6 MB RAM with one tab open and 80.3 MB RAM with 5 tabs open.

~Maxx~

 

[Windows i7 920]

I'm running the latest version of Google Chrome. It is only using 33 MB with several tabs open. I wash shocked when I saw that it was that low.

Are you sure you are including the memory the tabs are using ?
In Google enter about:memory into the address bar
A bonus is it will also tell you the memory other browsers are using. Its fairly complicated
so read this first
Memory Usage Backgrounder - The Chromium Projects

Oh oops, I just saw that I was not. 66 MB is the actual amount for that time.

 

[Zepher]

9 tabs in FF 3.6.6 and it is using 421MB

 

[rap33042]

Firefox 3.6.12 with 10 tabs open: 157,912K; I have seen up to the mid 300's if the tabs all have wallpaper-sized images.

 

[noobvious]

"How much memory does your browser use?"

mine doesn't use a fixed amount - it changes all the time depending on how many tabs i have open and what i'm doing in them.

 

[stve]

Opera 11 with 254 tabs = 2.61 GB memory ( I measured it with Opera running & again after closing Opera )
I also ran the Peacekeeper benchmark with 254 tabs & my score was down about a third.

 

[stve]

Chromium 9.0.581.0 with 230 tabs = 2.98 GB not very scientific compared with Opera as not all the same tabs.
Chrome froze on a tab wanting to load the quick time plugin & after restarting & reloading the tabs i ran the Peacekeeper benchmark.
Chrome scored 13105.
Only a couple of hundred points down than when i ran it with one tab.
Chrome CPU usage at 25% was a lot higher than Opera which had 12%.

 

[Kari]

Five browsers, all full screen, all with the same 8 tabs. Results:



Had to check Lunascape's memory usage from Task Manager, this otherwise excellent Chrome feature about:memory does not recognize Lunascape:



Kari

 

[StalkeR]

Chromium 9.0.581.0 with 230 tabs = 2.98 GB not very scientific compared with Opera as not all the same tabs.
Chrome froze on a tab wanting to load the quick time plugin & after restarting & reloading the tabs i ran the Peacekeeper benchmark.
Chrome scored 13105.
Only a couple of hundred points down than when i ran it with one tab.
Chrome CPU usage at 25% was a lot higher than Opera which had 12%.

230 tabs ...

 

[stve]

Opera 11 = 1,298 tabs only 3.205 GB

Made changes in Preferences Advanced/History turned off Remember content on visited pages & set Disk cache to Off
In Preferences Advanced/Content set Enable JavaScipt to off & set Enable plug-ins only on demand to on.
Loaded 365 tabs Memory = 1.390 GB First Picture

Then in In preferences/Advanced/History setting Memory cache to off & Remember visited addresses to off reduced Memory to 1.121 GB

I then opened the Independent newspaper in a new tab & selected all the links & opened them on new tabs. The blue pins on the tabs on the second picture indicate they are loaded but not visited yet.
I bookmarked all open pages to a new folder then opened all 649 pages in the folder to background tabs.
1298 tabs = Memory 3.221 GB
The easy way to count bookmarks in a folder is to open the folder & you are warned
you are about to open 1,298 bookmarks.

45 tabs have moved & need to be opened manually & 24 tabs show Error.
With only 649 tabs opera was still snappy.
1298 tabs, I wrote this post with no problems but switching between tabs was slow.
If you need JavaScript on for any tab you can right click the page & edit the site preferences.

 

[StalkeR]

I'll go offtopic,but just wanna know what are you doing with 230 opened tabs?(or you just open it to test how much memory will use your browser? )