![]() ![]() It is interesting to note that Microsoft's web browser recovered memory some time after it went down to only 5 open tabs. In fact, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11 used about twice as much memory as Firefox with 40 tabs open. It performed best with 15, 40 and down to 15 open tabs and never went above the 1 Gigabyte mark, while the two other browsers did. It seems to release memory faster or more efficiently than Internet Explorer or Firefox.įirefox takes the crown as a heavy duty browser. Google Chrome too made first place only once after nearly all tabs were closed again in all browsers. It performed best initially with only 5 tabs open in each browser, but landed last in all four consecutive benchmarks. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11 performed worst in four of the five benchmarks. Update: We have added Chrome 31 Stable and Firefox 26 Stable to the benchmark results: ![]() Note that this, at least in theory, will make Chrome use extra memory as it needs to be displayed by the browser (about 24,000 k it seems) I made the decision to start with 5 pages, measure the memory use, open another 10, measure again, then the remaining 25 for the last measure.Īfter that, I decided to close the 25 pages to go down to 15 again, measure that, then close another 10 pages so that I would end up with the top 5, and measure again.Īll measurements are taken from Chrome's about:memory page. The 15 websites:, ,, ,, ,, ,, , and the top 5 websites.All browsers without browser extensions, and plug-ins disabled.Browsers: Mozilla Firefox 29 Nightly, Google Chrome Dev 34, Internet Explorer 11.Test system: Windows 8.1 Professional 64-bit, 8 Gigabytes of RAM.This should cover more real-world scenarios. This time, I will look at three different scenarios with 5, 15 and 40 open tabs in each browser respectively. Firefox jumped by 13 versions, Chrome by 12, Internet Explorer by 2, and Opera switched to Chromium.īack then, I only looked at the memory use when ten websites were loaded in each browser. I bench marked the memory use of popular web browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Opera back in 2012, and a lot happened since then.īack then, the Opera browser came first followed by Mozilla Firefox, then Internet Explorer and finally Google Chrome.Īll browsers made big progress since then.
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