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by axolotlgod 1173 days ago
Does Chrome really use significantly less resources than Firefox? Are there numbers there?
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haupt 1173 days ago
According to Tom's Guide[1] Microsoft Edge beats out both when it comes to RAM utilization but Chrome just edges out Firefox when loading >10 tabs. That was in 2021. I'd be interested to see any other comparisons or benchmarks.

1. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/chrome-firefox-edge-ram-compa...

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prmoustache 1173 days ago
This is with no extensions installed right?
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IntelMiner 1173 days ago
It took a lot longer for Firefox to get GPU accelerated video playback on Linux iirc

Perhaps a "niche" use case for some, but there's a lot more Firefox users on Linux in particular

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tristan957 1172 days ago
Isn't Chromium hardware acceleration currently broken on Linux?
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