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can you spot any differences in your browser comparison?
A bit more politeness goes a very long way.
Try being more civil, this will earn you way more support, especially since you want to change people's minds.
@Frozyre Please, behave yourself. This unnecessary swearing is pointless.
Awfully rude just because you don't like something that you have full control of deciding to use or not.
@Frozyre please keep it a bit friendly. I understand you are mad, but there's no point in treating other people like this.
You actually started calling them to go to hell.
Open discussions are of course fine, but your tone isn't. Since we aren't talking about handling different opinions now, you are just insulting people. So feel free to express any feedback you might have, but there is no need for insulting and swearing.
Try Floorp.
Also, maybe don't compare clean chrome install to FF with a half dozen extensions installed. Extensions like Greasemonkey run literally any script you tell them to. An errant line of code and there goes your memory.
Try again, apples to apples dude.
"Moving the goal posts" I fail to see how I'm changing the conditions. I'm explaining a clear and obvious issue in that image which is why it's not a good comparison.
Okay, extensions require container processes, for each one. Each new extension add to the RAM usage. For both Firefox and Chrome.
So already the comparison is flawed because Firefox now requires more base memory to load those extensions out the gate.
But now, Firefox is clearly showing Tampermonkey in the toolbar, a userscript extension. Let's just say I run a script that fetches competing price info from temu.com when you browse a site like amazon. Not uncommon.
Let's say I set that to loop, so it'll work on infinite scroll pages too.
Okay, now if you leave your browser alone for an hour and it's refreshing these scripts, guess what happens to the memory?
Every test of current builds of FF vs Chrome has found extremely negligible performance differences when both are stock installs.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/mozilla-firefox-chrome-review-comparison-2020/
This is from 4 years ago,. Again, stock browser without a busted extension causing a memory leak, the browser runs solid.
https://cloudzy.com/blog/which-browsers-use-the-least-memory/#Firefox_vs_Chrome_RAM_Usage_Comparison
Run a real world test and you'll see what I mean. Their RAM consumption is pretty much on par, and varies between update cycles but not wildly.
https://youtu.be/YQcslo9OqtE?si=FvI-Hk7vk46H5U67
From 3 months ago, with graphs. Firefox and Chrome have had near identical performance for years.
You're comparing Chrome with no websites open to Firefox with a bunch of websites open?
Do you think webapps don't use RAM?
Why would you not compare them running the same things? Such a bizarre thing to do unless you're trying to skew the results.
It could be ublock origin that is causing some kind of memory leak in Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1331786
Or other extensions like Greasemonkey