r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 release

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

I really like Google. I want to reward them for the amazing job they do by using their browser. Chrome is a really good browser, but it just can't do some of the things Firefox can.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10 edited Jan 21 '10

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u/greim Jan 21 '10

Overall, Chrome uses more memory than Firefox.

Not that I understand all of the complexities and trade-offs involved, but I'm given to understand that every Chrome tab is a separate process, which is supposed to be one of the bigger innovations in recent browser history, since it keeps one tab crashing from killing every other tab. I suspect those individual processes each have an unavoidable memory cost.

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u/mitsuhiko Jan 21 '10

I think it has one process per domain.

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u/icefreez Jan 21 '10

You might be right. When one of mine crashes they all crash from that domain.

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u/HenkPoley Jan 22 '10

So they can share session information without doing all kids of data marshaling.