This is very quick and silly test you can try to analyse on the memory usage of Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Used environment
- Firefox 3.6.9
- Google Chromium 7.0.517
- Ubuntu 10.04
Method
- Choose a list of 10 random very frequently used web pages which consisting a mixture of dynamic and static content.
- Then measure the memory growth due to each new tab in both browsers.
- During the test, a snapshot of cumulative memory growth due to new tab was measured using operating system level resource statistics.
- Memory overhead due to add-ons was added to "Empty Tab" column.
2 comments:
chromes claim to fame besides its javascript performance was the isolation between tabs, so this kind of fairly linear growth is pretty much expected right?
Question : have you correctly distinguished between "total virtual size" and "resident size" ?
(As in : you *are* showing resident size here, right ?)
(see http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/analysis.html )
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