I just tested Firefox and i t does seem to be much snapier and faster than IE8, but what i did notice was ridiculously high Cpu usage. It was around 22% to 25% which is incredibly high in my opinion. Are you getting the same experience. Which is in your opinion the best browser all around?
It's probably Adblock Plus if you have that installed, as that uses quite a bit of horsepower to run. Stock firefox uses 3% of my CPU.
Well yeah, thanks for the feedback. Apparently it is a facebook app that drives my CPU crazy with firefox its running pretty normal right now. Ill try uninstalling adblocker though. Thanks for the suggestion.
Facebook used to be superlight on the CPU. Ever since they exploded and added the newsfeed it got heavy on the CPU. I believe its all the scripts and ajax they're running. I have an old 1Ghz PIII I use to tune my car on and periodically I'll pull up a webpage or two. Facebook will peg the CPU to 100% immediately.
right...... :3eyes: op, nab flashblock, and prune your adblock profile back to the eastlist subscription.
Yeah that's ridiculous. Its a simple social media networking website. Its an internet page for crying out loud. NO reason their code should be that bloated. It's more CPU intensive than some games. :3eyes:
By "hard to run" I mean that it uses quite a bit more memory than stock firefox. It's not like I have issues running it lol
Switched to Chrome and I couldn't be happier... it's so snappy fast and responsive on all sites, not only on Facebook. I hope the Adblock, Flashblock and DownThemAll plugins will be ported over to Chrome soon, so I can get rid of Firefox altogether. Opera seems to lag in Facebook as well, slow and sluggish.
On my work PC, Firefox 3.5 is a resource and CPU hog but then this machine only has a single-core CPU. On my home machine with a quad-core i7 and 6 GB of memory even Firefox has trouble bringing that combo to its knees!!! Although I use Firefox 3.5 more out of habit, Safari 4.0 is a very nice browser IMO with very fast page loading times... almost as fast as Chrome but without its annoying right-hand side menus and clumsy download manager. Opera 10 is also great and fast but I find that, like Internet Explorer 8, it doesn't always show web pages correctly on my system.
