Chrome takes the cake for RAM usage, and seems to have become more bloated with each new version. As with all of these browsers, RAM and CPU usage fluctuated a lot, but as a snapshot, Chrome used about 344,000 megabytes of RAM and about 31% of CPU. Google Chrome had eight processes running with only four tabs, which seemed excessive. I’m conducting this test on a dual-core Toshiba laptop of recent vintage. Then, we’re going to see how much each browser uses in CPU and RAM using the Windows Task Manager. We’re going to run each browser with four tabs open: YouTube with an HD movie playing, Facebook with a Flash game running, Google Maps in 3D view, and Twitter client Hootsuite. Let’s begin our browser resource usage test! Ideally, there’s a single browser that can still do everything you need, while using the least amount of system resources. This test is especially important for netbooks, where single-core CPUs are common and RAM is at a premium. We want to know which browser uses least resources (less CPU and less memory) while running the same set of tasks. But we’re taking a different approach, as our goal is to help you optimize your browser experience. There have been many articles comparing the browser resource usage of the three most powerful browsers: Google Chrome 10, Internet Explorer 9 and Mozilla Firefox 4.
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