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size=2 face=Arial>I continue to use Firefox 3.6.16 strictly because I keep
50-100 tabs open at a time and I use the BarTab add-on. The BarTab add-on
unloads tabs after a configurable amount of time and reloads them only when
needed. This reduces my CPU and RAM consumption by 90% in most cases and
stops the drive from thrashing. I tried Chrome and Firefox 4 but nothing is as
efficient for me as Firefox 3.6.16 with BarTab.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=421305602-19042011><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Brian Lawrence</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org
[mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Brian
Wood<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 18, 2011 9:48 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
tclug-list@mn-linux.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [tclug-list] What browser do you
use?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>I've been using Firefox 3.6.13 and have recently started using Chrome
<DIV>after using Chrome once previously. One frequently
encountered </DIV>
<DIV>scrolling-related bug I was having with Firefox went away with Chrome.
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<DIV>One reason I decided to take another look at Chrome was my
browsing </DIV>
<DIV>tends to use a lot of my resources. Firefox seems to be
multi-threaded </DIV>
<DIV>as the top program gives a one liner for Firefox
that makes it easy to </DIV>
<DIV>tell how much resource it is using. Chrome
though seems to use a </DIV>
<DIV>separate process for each tab and that makes it a pain to compare
how </DIV>
<DIV>much resource it is using to do the same thing I was doing
with Firefox. </DIV>
<DIV>There's another aspect to Chrome I like so don't really think
I'll go back </DIV>
<DIV>to Firefox soon, but I'm not really sure if Chrome is using
less resources </DIV>
<DIV>than Firefox. I also recall hearing about an
upcoming Firefox release </DIV>
<DIV>that will be more efficient than previous Firefox releases.
Thanks in </DIV>
<DIV>advance.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>-- <BR>Brian Wood<BR>Ebenezer Enterprises<BR><A
href="http://webEbenezer.net" target=_blank>http://webEbenezer.net</A><BR>(651)
251-9384<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>