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by slacka 4843 days ago
I have a win7 laptop with 4GB of RAM. After using Chrome from the beginning, I also was forced to switch back to Firefox because recent builds of Chrome began thrashing with 10+ tabs open.

Firefox has it's issues. It still doesn't silently update when run under a normal user account. Also the UI freezes when running heavy HTML5 pages.

Chrome is beginning to feel like FF 3. Google needs to take a page from Mozilla and start their own MemShrink program.
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mnarayan01 4843 days ago
> Also the UI freezes when running heavy HTML5 pages.

Any examples? I've never seen this (other than blatantly broken JS), and would be interested in seeing what would cause it.

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slacka 4843 days ago
My trading platform, tradeking.com, has a web app called Live Trading. According to the task manager, it maxes out 1 of my cores, and makes Firefox's UI unusable in both my home and work computers. My solution has been to run that app in Chrome, and do my light duty browsing in FF. Chrome's CPU usage is also high, but the UI stays responsive.
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mnarayan01 4843 days ago
Heh...it would be something I can't go to. It sounds more like inefficient JS than any HTML5 issues, but that is one drawback to not separating tabs; if the JS on one is maxing a core, you can't do anything anywhere else.
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