Browser Refresh Wars (FF2,IE7,Safari-Win, and Opera9)

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I've been working on a small project all day, and I noticed after an hour or so, my machine was running considerably slower. IE was responding fine, but FireFox was dragging its self around.

 

I checked the memory usage, and FF2 was 300,000+!!! IE was a strong ~30,000, so I was a bit confused. Both browsers had the same page opened, but FF was freaking consuming ridiculous amounts of memory, so I decided to investigate.

 

Looks like FF2 increases its memory usage everytime you refresh a page - even if the page is in cache. IE keeps its memory usage pretty stable.

 

I decided to test 4 popular browsers with a single page and see how they do after 5 refreshes (most web-designer/developers do some serious refreshing all day long).

 

Browser Starting Refresh 1 Refresh 2 Refresh 3 Refresh 4 Refresh 5 Firefox2 31,536k 38,432k 41,912k 47,068k 51,564k 56,700k Internet Explorer 7 29,316k 30,244k 29,552k 30,356k 29,752k 30,212k Safari for Windows 31,408k 34,036k 34,624k 34,880k 35,588k 36,132k Opera 9 24,356k 28,788k 28,924k 29,020k 29,020k 29,116k

 

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