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Comment by RandallBrown | Hacker News Reader

Now that Chrome seems to be getting a bit more bloated and Firefox seems to be tightening it's belt, things will probably begin to even out.

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I use Chrome as my main browser. I see no bloat at all?

In my experience, IE is losing bloat, Chrome started with a bit of bloat but quickly lost it, whilst Firefox has had bloat for a while.

I don't think Chrome is getting bloated -- I don't care how much space it takes up, it still feels snappy.

Where is Chrome's bloat?

Chrome's memory usage is[1] (and always has been[2]) very high and has been steadily getting worse where Firefox has been getting better and better thanks to the memshrink project[3]

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!...

[2] http://techpp.com/2011/09/28/chrome-14-vs-firefox-7-memory-f...

[3] https://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/ talks about it frequently

I don't care about memory, i have 8GB and i am not somebody who has 500 tabs open. What i care about is independent processes. When a site freezes the rest is unaffected. The same with Icognito Mode, this is a total joke on Firefox.

What counts in the end is speed, security and api's.

>When a site freezes the rest is unaffected.

Interestingly, however, when Flash crashes on one tab it crashes on all of them.

That's because flash is a single process in all tabs. It's more of a problem with the way flash is designed.

Chrome has just one plugin process. All tab processes share the same plugin process, so if one Flash crash will take all Flash.

Anecdotal evidence, but over the last month I've seen Chrome not work on a few websites (broken js) and have seen the crashes due to flash a few times too. Recent changes have not been for the better.

I've recently switched back to FF and found that it worked in the places that Chrome didn't.

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