Thursday, February 17, 2011

I am sorry firefox

I have always been using Firefox for anything that had to do with browsing (apart from some websites that only work with IE). My habit is to leave it running for days and after a point it does become slow. I thought it had to do with its infamous memory leaks and did not believe the official response that caching is raising memory consumption. I was wrong.

I have started using Chrome which does look fast (reality is, it is faster for the most part) when you are not using it :-) Today I woke up and Chrome was almost unresponsive. Here is a screen shot of task manager:


I am really sorry Firefox :-)