Comments on: Now that Firefox 3.5 is out, let the benchmark battles begin

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:40:00 +0000

Where did I say that Chrome was the fastest? There isn't one fastest browser here — it depends on what you're doing. Safari certainly excels in some of the more important areas (DOM, Strings).

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:40:00 +0000

Where did I say that Chrome was the fastest? There isn’t one fastest browser here — it depends on what you’re doing. Safari certainly excels in some of the more important areas (DOM, Strings).

By: David

David — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:54:00 +0000

I'm confused. Looking at the graph of overall averages Safari is way ahead of everything else – yet you say Chrome is the fastest.

By: David

David — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:54:00 +0000

I’m confused. Looking at the graph of overall averages Safari is way ahead of everything else – yet you say Chrome is the fastest.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:00 +0000

Good point, Ryan. In a quick, unscientific, ad hoc test here, I loaded all the same tabs in both, and then used Chrome's "stats for nerds" (about:memory) page to compare — subtracting out the memory stats page itself, of course. That actually shows Firefox using more shared memory than Chrome, (20MB vs 9.5MB), but Chrome using more private memory (152MB vs 144MB).

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:53:00 +0000

Good point, Ryan. In a quick, unscientific, ad hoc test here, I loaded all the same tabs in both, and then used Chrome’s “stats for nerds” (about:memory) page to compare — subtracting out the memory stats page itself, of course. That actually shows Firefox using more shared memory than Chrome, (20MB vs 9.5MB), but Chrome using more private memory (152MB vs 144MB).

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:44:00 +0000

Actually, 2k, you can group them back together. Grab the loose tab by the tab, not by the frame and drag it back to where it belongs.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:44:00 +0000

Actually, 2k, you can group them back together. Grab the loose tab by the tab, not by the frame and drag it back to where it belongs.

By: Ryan Petrich

Ryan Petrich — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:35:00 +0000

Also, Reply here/Reply to this comment doesn't seem to work on Safari4/Mac

By: Ryan Petrich

Ryan Petrich — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:35:00 +0000

Also, Reply here/Reply to this comment doesn’t seem to work on Safari4/Mac

By: Ryan Petrich

Ryan Petrich — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:33:00 +0000

Be careful, that page doesn't detail the methodology they use to calculate memory usage. If they aren't measuring correctly, they will be counting Chrome's shared memory numerous times.

By: Ryan Petrich

Ryan Petrich — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:33:00 +0000

Be careful, that page doesn’t detail the methodology they use to calculate memory usage. If they aren’t measuring correctly, they will be counting Chrome’s shared memory numerous times.