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Comment by sammoth | Hacker News Reader

Huh? I just compared the two on Windows and Chrome wastes ~3 pixels more for the chrome at the top than Firefox does. Not only this, Firefox is customisable using style sheets! You can just reduce the unused padding yourself using for example, Stylish

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Jesus! you are right, I am honestly confused now. I always thought ff used more space than chrome.

Even now looking at the two makes me feel as if ff is some how bulkier, I am looking at the same page, and ff look really huge EVEN IF ITS NOT!!...

That's really odd.

On the Mac, Firefox uses a bit more space than Chrome. Safari uses only half as much.

I have all three browsers open on Mac OS with multiple tabs open in each. I measured the tab plus address bars of each:

    - Firefox: 79px
    - Chrome: 72px
    - Safari: 61px

You left out the most important case with only one/zero tabs where Safari gives up the space otherwise used by tabs and the other browsers don't.

That's about 90% of my browser windows and it makes Safari use only half as much space as the other browsers.

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