This is not a tech question per se but it's something I've wanted to know for a while.

I wonder how long someone keeps their browser up and you check your task manager and it says the CPU (or memory) take as much as 230,000 megabytes or something like that (that's what my Opera browser does especially when around the Flash player).

This goes out to anyone using any browser, how much megabytes/memory does YOUR browser take?

This goes to Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Rockmelt, even the Internet Explorer ( ).

Safari

49.8 MB on disk (39,605,342 bytes)

ZombieKitten said:

Safari

49.8 MB on disk (39,605,342 bytes)

Interesting. How about how much it takes when the browser's running, which is what I was really asking.

Timmy84 said:

the ram used will vary depending on browser, what plugins and add ons you have, and what you are doing on it. such as how many tabs open, what sites being used etc. flash, java, video, etc sites will use up more ram

I'm usually on Firefox, and have my cache management limited to 1024 MB's (1 gig). But I usually have a minimum of 5 - 10 tabs open at any given time. Even my homepage is set to open 8 websites when I open my browser. At the moment that I'm writing this, I have 7 tabs open, and my browser currently has 431 MB's of web content accumulated.

Timmy84 said:

ZombieKitten said:

Safari

49.8 MB on disk (39,605,342 bytes)

Interesting. How about how much it takes when the browser's running, which is what I was really asking.

At least as far as Firefox is concerned, and I'm pretty sure with the other browsers as well, how much a browser will take when it's running depends on what you have the cache limit set at. A browser will generally take whatever you allow it, and as long as your system can handle it. Of course if your cache limit is set higher than what your system (amount of RAM) can handle, your browser will crash.

unique said:

the ram used will vary depending on browser, what plugins and add ons you have, and what you are doing on it. such as how many tabs open, what sites being used etc. flash, java, video, etc sites will use up more ram

And of course the more RAM you have, the smoother your web experience will be (YouTube videos and such playing without freezing up). With all the rich content that's on the web these days, you'd want a system to be running a minimum of 3 gigs of RAM.

firefox, 25 windows open, 2.10 GB.

Timmy84 said:

This is not a tech question per se but it's something I've wanted to know for a while.

I wonder how long someone keeps their browser up and you check your task manager and it says the CPU (or memory) take as much as 230,000 megabytes or something like that (that's what my Opera browser does especially when around the Flash player).

This goes out to anyone using any browser, how much megabytes/memory does YOUR browser take?

This goes to Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Rockmelt, even the Internet Explorer ( ).

CPU and memory are different things.

I'm streaming a song via youtube and orging at the moment and Chromium is taking 340 megs at the moment. I wouldn't say the more stripped down browsers that I've used take any less when streaming something, although when I'm just browsing "basic sites" with a browser like uzbl the amount dips below 70 mb (that browser doesn't even have a gui and forget about virus scanning on Linux).

Don't worry about the browser hogging up your resources, because that's exactly what those resources are for. It just uses a certain percentage what's available. No need to keep the memory consumption minimal.

novabrkr said:

Timmy84 said:

This is not a tech question per se but it's something I've wanted to know for a while.

I wonder how long someone keeps their browser up and you check your task manager and it says the CPU (or memory) take as much as 230,000 megabytes or something like that (that's what my Opera browser does especially when around the Flash player).

This goes out to anyone using any browser, how much megabytes/memory does YOUR browser take?

This goes to Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Rockmelt, even the Internet Explorer ( ).

CPU and memory are different things.

I'm streaming a song via youtube and orging at the moment and Chromium is taking 340 megs at the moment. I wouldn't say the more stripped down browsers that I've used take any less when streaming something, although when I'm just browsing "basic sites" with a browser like uzbl the amount dips below 70 mb (that browser doesn't even have a gui and forget about virus scanning on Linux).

Don't worry about the browser hogging up your resources, because that's exactly what those resources are for. It just uses a certain percentage what's available. No need to keep the memory consumption minimal.

Yeah I realized my mistake when I posted it. Oh well, I was actually talking about the CPU then (my bad) because I check my Task Manager all the time now. So yeah right now my browser's using up 161 megs.

[Edited 6/1/12 12:06pm]

I think you're still talking about memory

CPU refers to the processor and its usage is measured usually in percentages. Memory (RAM) is used for storing data and browsers usually occupy it only temporarily for each session (although I used to have a corrupted copy of Opera on WinXP that wouldn't clear itself from RAM and clogged up the entire system eventually).

It's hard to tell what the CPU consumption with many programs these days really is with multicore systems. Additionally, my system runs in "frequency scaling" mode which means that it only uses a fraction of each processors capacity in order to save energy and system monitoring programs may display very high numbers sometimes (which are, in a certain sense, incorrect).

novabrkr said:

I think you're still talking about memory

CPU refers to the processor and its usage is measured usually in percentages. Memory (RAM) is used for storing data and browsers usually occupy it only temporarily for each session (although I used to have a corrupted copy of Opera on WinXP that wouldn't clear itself from RAM and clogged up the entire system eventually).

It's hard to tell what the CPU consumption with many programs these days really is with multicore systems. Additionally, my system runs in "frequency scaling" mode which means that it only uses a fraction of each processors capacity in order to save energy and system monitoring programs may display very high numbers sometimes (which are, in a certain sense, incorrect).

Man I've been on computers all this long and still get them confused but yeah it's memory.

no worries brew

lazycrockett said:

firefox, 25 windows open, 2.10 GB.

that is a lot of windows! I have five open, and I feel all over the place

novabrkr said:

no worries brew