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baggachipz on Nov 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?

I opened the same exact tabs in both FF57 and Chrome (7 each) and sorted by memory usage in Activity Monitor. When adding up the main task and helpers, FF57 used significantly more.

seba_dos1 on Nov 16, 2017 [–]

The pattern I noticed is that with small amount of tabs Firefox can consume more RAM, but the situation quickly changes in favor of Firefox when opening more of them.

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