Firefox 5: New, but improved?

Reduced memory usage is a feature of FF6 and moving forward. I only occasionally see FF6 go over 200MB with several tabs open. FF Nightly rarely goes over 200MB. But I've been using a Windows box for the past week and can't see my FreeBSD usage. FF6, right now, says 186MB with six tabs open.
 
drhowarddrfine said:
FF6, right now, says 186MB with six tabs open.
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Lol, doesn't the whole of Windows XP run in like 96MB of ram?
I hate it when web browsers require more RAM than operating systems...
 
drhowarddrfine said:
That total includes cache, javascript engine, parsers, images, and so on.
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Such as a rendering engine (Webkit/Gecko/Presto/...), add-ons/plugins/extensions (think Flash player for instance) and a user interface.

kpedersen said:
I hate it when web browsers require more RAM than operating systems...
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Actually, I'd be more upset if it were the other way around because that would mean the OS is too bloated. Operating systems are supposed to be compact because their primary job is to facilitate actual use rather than being part of it. It's pretty easy for a serious userland application to have a larger footprint than the OS.

Fonz
 
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