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Originally Posted by Ara T.
Yup. Firefox is indeed junk nowadays. Chrome just wipes the floor with it in terms of speed and interface.
It does use more RAM since each tab, as someone noted above, are split into separate processes... this makes it more stable though. RAM is cheap these days though and everyone and their grandma has 2+ GB of ram.
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Firefox also presents the interesting issue of slowly absorbing RAM. When you open the browser, the usage is about 130MB. After a few days of use, it climbs up to nearly 400MB (it's at 382MB right at the moment). If you don't close and reopen it periodically, it will slow the machine to a crawl.
As a comparison, Chrome is at 51MB with about the same number of tabs open.
I'm seriously considering dumping Firefox it in favor of Chrome unless others have a serious issue with Chrome for any reason.