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While there are several nice reviews of browsers for osX on The Net, like this one none seem to address idle time resource usage.
So before I left work last night, I started 5 different web browsers with the "about:blank" URL,
then I hid browser and the machine (Blue+White/400MHz/768MB) was left
idle for 13 hours. I was rather surprised to find just how much CPU time was
eaten up by most browsers even while doing absolutely NOTHING.
Camino was the worst offender, while Safari's CPU time reflects barely more than
its startup time!
min:sec.100ths Browser Version
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0:05.20 Safari 1.0
5:02.32 Internet Explorer 5.2
7:40.16 Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1
10:00.80 Netscape 7.1
13:38.30 Opera 6.03
17:34.64 Camino 0.7
About 7% of my CPU is used.
Whats going on?!
[ October 21, 2003, 10:34 AM: Message edited by: Script Kiddie ]
So before I left work last night, I started 5 different web browsers with the "about:blank" URL,
then I hid browser and the machine (Blue+White/400MHz/768MB) was left
idle for 13 hours. I was rather surprised to find just how much CPU time was
eaten up by most browsers even while doing absolutely NOTHING.
Camino was the worst offender, while Safari's CPU time reflects barely more than
its startup time!
min:sec.100ths Browser Version
-------------------------------------------
0:05.20 Safari 1.0
5:02.32 Internet Explorer 5.2
7:40.16 Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1
10:00.80 Netscape 7.1
13:38.30 Opera 6.03
17:34.64 Camino 0.7
About 7% of my CPU is used.
Whats going on?!
[ October 21, 2003, 10:34 AM: Message edited by: Script Kiddie ]