{"id":1608,"date":"2008-06-30T13:51:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T13:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/8752fa9ddf7aff69bfb168f7f44864d8"},"modified":"2008-06-30T13:51:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T13:51:59","slug":"firefox-30-wins-memory-battle-uses-less-system-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1608","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 3.0 wins memory battle – uses less system memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 browser uses memory much more efficiently than its rivals, according to an independent tester who wrote a memory-monitoring utility to track usage by Firefox, Internet Explorer (IE), Flock, Opera and Safari. <\/p>\n

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The poorest marks went to Apple's Safari 3 .1 for Windows — Allen tested only the Windows versions of each browser — which consistently consumed more memory the longer it was used. “Safari on Windows shows extremely poor memory management,” he said. Other browsers, including Microsoft's IE 8 Beta 1, Flock's Flock 2.0, and Opera Software's Opera 9.5, were in the middle, memory management-wise, he argued. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 browser uses memory much more efficiently than its rivals, according to an independent tester who wrote a memory-monitoring utility to track usage by Firefox, Internet Explorer (IE), Flock, Opera and Safari. <\/p>\n

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The poorest marks went to Apple's Safari 3 .1 for Windows — Allen tested only the Windows versions of each browser — which consistently consumed more memory the longer it was used. “Safari on Windows shows extremely poor memory management,” he said. Other browsers, including Microsoft's IE 8 Beta 1, Flock's Flock 2.0, and Opera Software's Opera 9.5, were in the middle, memory management-wise, he argued. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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