The Most Comprehensive and Complete Web Browser Memory Usage List


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Ok, so I've personally done a memory usage comparison between 33 browsers.

How I Tested :

In order to keep the test environment as constant (and thus fair) as possible, I created a Vitual Machine with VMware Workstation 6, installed the Windows OS, installed all the browsers, set all browsers' start pages blank, restarted the system, opened taskmgr, and saved a snapshot of the Virtual Machine. Everytime I finished test a browser, I loaded the snapshot back to test the next browser, so the enviroment would remain the same before the start of each test. All browsers tested with clean installs, and English interfaces, unless an English interface is not available. All memory values are rounded to 1 digit after the decimal.

Host System :

Intel Xeon 5110 Woodcrest dual-core CPU @ 1.60GHz

2.0G RAM

Windows Server 2003 SP2

Guest System :

2 Processors (Intel Xeon 5110 @ 1.60GHz)

1.0G RAM

Windows XP SP2

The Tests :

1) Blank Page

The memory usage after starting the browser with a blank start page and wait for the memory usage to stabilize, and record the value.

2) One Page

Open http://www.msn.com, IE's default home portal page, wait for the memory usage to stailize, record the value.

3) Six Pages

Open five other pages, wait for the memory usage to stabiize, record the value. The five other pages are :

1. http://www.yahoo.com, one of the biggest portal sites in the world

2. http://www.sohu.com, one of the biggest portal sites in China, and as many Chinese portal sites, (in)famous for heavy animated pictures and flash stuff, and tons of non-standards-compliant stuff.

3. http://en.wikipedia.org, the largest encyclopedia in the world

4. http://www.zol.com.cn, another Chinese site, one of the biggest tech portal sites in China, and again tons of animated pictures, flash, and non-standards-compliant stuff.

5. http://www.apple.com/startpage, the default Safari home page, and quite heavy HTML stuff.

4) Trident Memory Leak Bug Test

Using the memory leak bug test here ( http://im.qq.com/tt/images/release/testpage.html ), provided by Tencent, if the browser's memory usage doesn't imcrease constantly, or the browser can do garbage collections thus periodic decreases in the memory usage during the test, to keep the total memory usage under less than 10M extra as compared to before the test during the entire test, then it counted as not affected by the bug. Else it's counted as affected by the bug.

The Candidates and Results :

===== Trident-based =====

1) Internet Explorer 7

The market leader and most widely used web browser

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Home Page : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...ie/default.mspx

Download size : 14.7M

Blank Page : 17.8M

One Page : 32.4M

Six Pages : 109.1M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

2) iRider 2.52.0018U

A commercial web browser based on Trident, with interesting thumbnail interface rather than tabs. Claims to have better memory management.

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Home Page : http://www.irider.com/

Download size : 3.72M

Blank Page : 11.3M

One Page : 27.3M

Six Pages : 95.7M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

3) Crazy Browser 3.0.0 RC1

A Trident-based MDI browser

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Home Page : http://www.crazybrowser.com/

Download size : 691K

Blank Page : 14.8M

One Page : 27.6M

Six Pages : 96.5M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

4) SlimBrowser V4.10

Another Trident-based MDI browser

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Home Page : http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/

Download size : 1.84M

Blank Page : 15.5M

One Page : 29.1M

Six Pages : 98.3M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

5) Donut RAPT #126

A highly rated Trident shell from Japan.

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Home Page : http://rapt21.com/download.php

Download size : 713K

Blank Page : 7.4M

One Page : 27.4M

Six Pages : 96.6M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

6) Donut L 32

Another Trident shell from the Donut family.

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Home Page : http://rapt21.com/download.php

Download size : 255K

Blank Page : 6.0M

One Page : 26.4M

Six Pages : 95.6M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

7) Donut Q 77 (Japanese-only)

Yet another Trident shell from the Donut family.

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Home Page : http://rapt21.com/download.php

Download size : 731K

Blank Page : 6.9M

One Page : 26.7M

Six Pages : 95.6M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

8) Sleipnir 2.7.1 w/Trident

The most popular alternative browser in Japan. With Trident engine.

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Home Page : http://www.fenrir.co.jp/en/sleipnir/

Download size : 4.47M

Blank Page : 27.5M

One Page : 41.3M

Six Pages : 116.4M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

9) Grani 3.1 (Japanese-only)

Another Trident based browser from the maker of Sleipnir.

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Home Page : http://www.fenrir.co.jp/grani/

Download size : 4.47M

Blank Page : 27.0M

One Page : 41.6M

Six Pages : 109.6M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

10) Lunascape 4.6.1 w/Trident

Another popular alternative browser in Japan, with a lot of extra toolbar and scrolling news stuff, and apparently a custom garbage collector that works best with fewer pages. With Trident engine.

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Home Page : http://en.lunascape.tv/

Download size : 8.10M

Blank Page : 7.2M

One Page : 34.2M

Six Pages : 102.1M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

11) Bura 1.2.04 (Japanese-only)

A tabbed Trident shell with a funny icon, from Japan.

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Home Page : http://www.geocities.jp/tabbrowser/

Download size : 467K

Blank Page : 6.2M

One Page : 28.4M

Six Pages : 94.5M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

12) Maxthon 2.0.9.1640

The most popular alternative browser in China, based on Trident engine.

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Home Page : http://www.maxthon.com/

Download size : 3.8M

Blank Page : 18.3M

One Page : 34.8M

Six Pages : 101.9M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

13) Avant Browser 11.6 build 11

A popular tabbed browser by a Chinese programmer, based on Trident engine.

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Home Page : http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Download size : 1.90M

Blank Page : 19.6M

One Page : 34.4M

Six Pages : 105.2M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

14) TheWorld Browser 2.1

A light-weight Trident-based browser from China.

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Home Page : http://www.ioage.com/en/index.htm

Download size : 558K

Blank Page : 16.9M

One Page : 31.0M

Six Pages : 98.1M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

15) GreenBrowser 4.5.0423

Another Trident-based browser from China.

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Home Page : http://www.morequick.com/IndexEn.htm

Download size : 1.23M

Blank Page : 13.2M

One Page : 27.6M

Six Pages : 89.4M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

16) GOSURF v2.81

Yet another Trident-based browser from China. With some custom memory saving technique.

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Home Page : http://gosurfbrowser.com/?&ln=en

Download size : 2.15M

Blank Page : 4.0M

One Page : 27.3M

Six Pages : 48.2M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

17) Acoo Browser 1.84.640

Another Trident-based multi-tabbed browser.

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Home Page : http://www.acoobrowser.com/

Download size : 1.71M

Blank Page : 17.1M

One Page : 30.0M

Six Pages : 95.5M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

18) EnjoyIE 3.0 build 080401

An interesting Trident shell from China that integrated a preview function similar to the popular Coolris Preview. In the Chinese version, the search box also has inline real-time translation function.

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with preview in action :

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Home Page : http://www.enjoyie.com/en/

Download size : 737K

Blank Page : 7.4M

One Page : 24.4M

Six Pages : 101.1M

Memory Leak Bug : Yes

19) Tencent Traveler 3.8 (Chinese-only)

A Chinese Trident-based browser from Tencent, the maker of the memory leak bug test, which predictably passes the test. Has some very aggressive memory saving technique and custom garbage collector.

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Home Page : http://im.qq.com/tt/

Download size : 2.75M

Blank Page : 3.4M

One Page : 10.3M

Six Pages : 22.6M

Memory Leak Bug : No

20) MiniIE V1.5.668 (Chinese-only)

A minimalist Trident-based browser from China, claimed to be the smallest (GUI) browser with the fastest startup time. Has a funny nickname Naked Run Browser. Implements some extremely aggressive custom garbage collector. The only other Trident-based browser that passes the memory leak bug test.

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Home Page : http://www.miniie.com/

Download size : 2.36M

Blank Page : 1.8M

One Page : 2.6M

Six Pages : 69.6M

Memory Leak Bug : No

No Firefox or Opera? :s

Note how he mentions having tested 33 browsers, and only 20 appear in the post... guess he hit the post size limit.

To the original poster: Great job, and I can't wait for the remaining test results. Your efforts might settle the eternal 'Which browser sucks the least?' debate.

continued...

===== Gecko-based =====

21) Firefox 2.0.0.14

THE Gecko-based browser.

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Home Page : http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Download size : 5.8M

Blank Page : 21.1M

One Page : 29.9M

Six Pages : 80.9M

Memory Leak Bug : No

Special Notes : Apparently Firefox doesn't like those Chinese sites. The interface temporarily locks up when opening those Chinese sites, even when the CPU has plenty of idle time. Seems to be some problem related to the XUL interface instead of Gecko.

22) Firefox 3 beta 5

The next generation of Firefox browser.

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Home Page : http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Download size : 7.19M

Blank Page : 30.3M

One Page : 38.5M

Six Pages : 83.5M

Memory Leak Bug : No

Special Notes : Again Firefox doesn't like those Chinese sites. The interface temporarily locks up when opening those Chinese sites, even when the CPU has plenty of idle time. Seems to be some problem related to the XUL interface instead of Gecko.

23) SeaMonkey 1.1.9

THE Gecko-based Internet Suite. Supposed to be a "bloat" compared to Firefox, its Navigator mode surprisingly takes less memory than Firefox, even when they are running on exact the same version of Gecko engine.

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Home Page : http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Download size : 12.4M

Blank Page : 18.7M

One Page : 28.1M

Six Pages : 78.1M

Memory Leak Bug : No

Special Notes : Yet again SeaMonkey doesn't seem to like those Chinese sites. The interface temporarily locks up when opening those Chinese sites, even when the CPU has plenty of idle time. Seems indeed to be some problem related to the XUL interface.

24) Flock 1.1.2

The Social Web Browser, with lots and lots of extra functions, so it bounds to take some more resource as a price. But by how much? we'll see.

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Home Page : http://flock.com/

Download size : 10.6M

Blank Page : 36.3M

One Page : 51.9M

Six Pages : 94.4M

Memory Leak Bug : No

Special Notes : Same XUL interface, same story with those Chinese websites.

25) K-Meleon 1.1.5

The minimalist Geck-based Browser.

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Home Page : http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

Download size : 5.19M

Blank Page : 16.4M

One Page : 25.4M

Six Pages : 72.2M

Memory Leak Bug : No

Special Notes : It doesn't have problem with those Chinese sites, and it's not based on the same XUL interface as Firefox.

26) Sleipnir 2.7.1 w/Gecko

The most popular alternative browser in Japan. With Gecko engine.

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Home Page : http://www.fenrir.co.jp/en/sleipnir/

Download size : ~20M + 4.47M

Blank Page : 30.2M

One Page : 39.9M

Six Pages : 85.9M

Memory Leak Bug : No

27) Lunascape 4.6.1 w/Gecko

Another popular alternative browser in Japan, with a lot of extra toolbar and scrolling news stuff, apparently its custom garbage collector doesn't work with Gecko as well as with Trident. Or it just means Gecko has its own better garbage collector than Trident. With Gecko engine.

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Home Page : http://en.lunascape.tv/

Download size : ~20M + 8.10M

Blank Page : 9.9M

One Page : 43.8M

Six Pages : 92.2M

Memory Leak Bug : No

28) Sylera 3.0.20 (Japanese-only)

A Gecko-based browser from Japan.

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Home Page : http://dombla.net/sylera/

Download size : 12.2M

Blank Page : 14.7M

One Page : 25.7M

Six Pages : 75.2M

Memory Leak Bug : No

29) Orca Browser 1.0 RC3

A Gecko-based browser from the same Chinese programmer behind Avant Browser.

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Home Page : http://forum.avantbrowser.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=13104

Download size : 6.3M

Blank Page : 23.4M

One Page : 38.1M

Six Pages : 83.7M

Memory Leak Bug : No

===== WebKit-based =====

30) Safari 3.31

Apple's web browser, based on KHTML/WebKit, ported to Windows.

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Home Page : http://www.apple.com/safari/

Download size : 18.6M

Blank Page : 29.2M

One Page : 47.5M

Six Pages : 128.9M

Memory Leak Bug : No

Special Notes : It seems Safari is not happy with those Chinese sites, after opening the two Chinese sites, its CPU usage jumps to 50% (full CPU usage for one processor) and the whole browser becomes very un-responsive.

31) Safari w/WebKit Nightly r32574

Safari with the latest WebKit nightly

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Home Page : http://nightly.webkit.org/

Download size : 18.6M + 14.6M

Blank Page : 30.2M

One Page : 47.1M

Six Pages : 131.7M

Memory Leak Bug : No

Special Notes : Seems WebKit is not happy with those Chinese sites, after opening the two Chinese sites, its CPU usage jumps to 50% (full CPU usage for one processor) and the whole browser becomes very un-responsive.

===== Presto-based =====

32) Opera 9.27

My personal favorite browser :p Merlin engine.

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Home Page : http://www.opera.com/

Download size : 4.7M

Blank Page : 15.3M

One Page : 24.9M

Six Pages : 72.9M

Memory Leak Bug : No

33) Opera 9.5 beta 2

The next generation of Opera, with Kestrel engine.

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Home Page : http://www.opera.com/

Download size : 4.99M

Blank Page : 20.9M

One Page : 29.1M

Six Pages : 91.4M

Memory Leak Bug : No

=====

Comparison table and charts coming...

Good job on the extensive and exhaustive test, and I'm sorry to ask this, but, what's the point?

Memory usage is hyped up these days. It has no relevance anymore, unless you're talking about memory leaks or seriously bloated software. Browsers in general are light, compared to office and multimedia suites.

Also, some browsers (eg: Opera) allow you to set the amount of RAM to use, so it's a variable value. What good are numbers, in this case?

Finally, you didn't mention what memory were you measuring? Private bytes? Virtual Size? Working Set?

--

IMHO, It would have been more beneficial, if you instead measured the startup times, page loading, rendering, script execution, GDI/User Handles, etc

Good job on the extensive and exhaustive test, and I'm sorry to ask this, but, what's the point?

Memory usage is hyped up these days. It has no relevance anymore, unless you're talking about memory leaks or seriously bloated software. Browsers in general are light, compared to office and multimedia suites.

Also, some browsers (eg: Opera) allow you to set the amount of RAM to use, so it's a variable value. What good are numbers, in this case?

Finally, you didn't mention what memory were you measuring? Private bytes? Virtual Size? Working Set?

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IMHO, It would have been more beneficial, if you instead measured the startup times, page loading, rendering, script execution, GDI/User Handles, etc

well, I'd say the point is about as much as any other synthetic benchmarks out there :) also I did this because personally I have seen less memory usage tests around, when there are many extensive and in-depth page loading, rendering, scripting speed, etc. tests all over the web, done by people with better equipment (I don't even have a stop-watch :p) and across wider platforms (my only access to a Mac is my boss' MacBook Air, and I can't do all I want on it), for example Here.

As for the hype, I'd say memory usage is about as much hyped up as all the other stuffs like page loading, rendering, scripting speed, etc. Only that compared to startup time, page loading, scripting speed, etc. the memory usage is relatively more constant and less affected by some random factors like how your ISP like a certain server at a certain time, or how many cookies are stored in the cache, etc. About the relevancy stuff, when we have browsers that can finish some complex computations on DNA sequences within half a second, stuff like the page loading and scripting speed is really no more relevant than memory usage for real life situations. In reality I think we care more about the features than whether one browser will render FaceBook a couple seconds faster than another, when it takes more than half a minute to download the stuff depending on your ISP :shiftyninja:

For Opera, I use the default automatic setting, so it only shows how it consumes memory when you give it total control of memory management (like all the other browsers). If you personally set the amount of memory to be used youself, it will ofcourse be different. And I just record the Mem Usage in the taskmgr, so I guess it's showing the Working Set. I can add the other numbers if you really want, but then you'll have to wait to when I have some more free time ;)

About the speed tests, I do plan to do a scripting speed test, as that doesn't need a stop watch :p And that my ISP can be quite random on deciding when it'll be more happy to one site than another, so I doubt I can do any valid test related to the page loading speed. However the thing is it seems quite hard to find a scripting speed test that IE and all those Trident browsers don't hang up on it :wacko: well, I guess that just means Trident sucks at running scripts. So far I'm considering to use the DHTML performance tests provided by Opera Here, and I've already got some interesting numbers with the different Trident shells, it seems some Trident shells can have quite better performance than IE.

All in all, the point of this test is definitely not trying to encourage you to choose a browser based solely on its memory usage. However I think some interesting points can be observed from the results, like SeaMonkey actually uses less memory than Firefox, and despite the claim of more efficient memory management, the next generation of Firefox and Opera still can use quite a bit more RAM than their predecessors (ofcourse it could just be because they are still beta's), and some Trident shell's custom memory saving technique and garbage collector can do interesting stuff to the memory usage. I'm sure others can observe more points of interest from the results. After all, that's what synthetic benchmarks are mostly about, IMHO. :)

  • 2 weeks later...

Sorry, but I do not find this the "most comprehensive" nor do I find this to be the "most complete" browser memory usage test. I will give credit that it is the most ambitious browser test I have seen.

Specifically, my issues are related to this:

2) One Page

Open http://www.msn.com, IE's default home portal page, wait for the memory usage to stailize, record the value.

3) Six Pages

Open five other pages, wait for the memory usage to stabiize, record the value.

So for the one page portion, and the six page portion of the tests, all you did was wait for the memory usage to stabilize and record the value? The results are misleading and frankly provide little usefulness in terms of real world usage. What this test should have included was long term memory usage using one page/tab, or using multiple pages/tabs. In the real world, most people are not concerned with memory usage after the usage simply stabilizes. That typically happens in a matter of seconds for most browsers. Under real-world usage, multiple tabs are being constantly opened, closed, and new tabs being opened.

Regarding your claims about Firefox 3, your test does not debunk the claim by Mozilla that Firefox 3 is MUCH more efficient than Firefox 2. Your results for Firefox 2 are also misleading as it's well known that Firefox 2 has *many* memory leak problems, specifically over a long usage period of time. Firefox 3 over a LONG period of time and when running many tabs has been shown by several tests to be more efficient than a vast majority of browsers out there, Firefox 2 included.

If your test was done for several hours with many tabs (12+) being opened, closed and re-opened for each browser, we would have seen vast differences between many of the browsers in your list.

  • 2 weeks later...

Have you considered the virtual memory usage? Tencent Traveller swaps physical memory to virtual memory constantly every few seconds.

Have you configured the ad blocker of each browser to block the same contents? A single flash ad could use more than 10mb memory.

Also how do you test the "Memory Leak Bug"? Where do you find the "Custom Garbage Collector" thingy?

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    • Anthropic pulls Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after US export control order by Pradeep Viswanathan In April this year, Anthropic launched the Claude Mythos Preview frontier model with state-of-the-art cyber and coding capabilities for a select set of companies around the world. After preparing appropriate guardrails, early this week, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its most capable AI models. Claude Fable 5 is for general users and comes with strict safeguards, while Mythos 5 is designed with fewer safeguards for cybersecurity and biology use cases. Today, Anthropic abruptly suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all customers after receiving an export control directive from the US government. The company received the directive from the government today at 5:21 p.m. ET, and the received letter did not provide any details regarding the national security concern. Anthropic understands that the government became aware of a method to bypass, or “jailbreak,” Fable 5, which might be the reason behind the directive. The order was issued under national security authorities and requires the company to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether they are inside or outside the United States. The restriction also applies to foreign national employees working at Anthropic. As a result, the company has disabled both models for all customers to ensure compliance. Access to previous Anthropic models like Opus and Sonnet is not affected by this government order. The company highlighted that it had developed strong safeguards to reduce the possibility that Fable is misused for tasks related to cybersecurity. In fact, many developers are complaining that the safeguards are going overboard. Additionally, the company worked with the US government, the UK AISI, multiple private third-party organizations, and internal teams to red-team Fable’s safeguards for thousands of hours. Finally, Anthropic noted that no testers have yet been able to find a universal jailbreak on Fable 5. As expected, Anthropic disagrees that a narrow potential jailbreak should lead to the recall of a commercial model used by hundreds of millions of people. It warned that applying this standard across the AI industry could effectively halt new frontier model deployments. Anthropic concluded by mentioning that it is working to restore access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 as soon as possible and plans to share more details within the next 24 hours.
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