Opera is Best Memory Management Web Browser

Filed in: Downloads, Web — October 1st, 2005

Previously, I published few reasons that I cannot switch to Opera from Firefox. Now, I still cannot switch to Opera but I will use Opera more often than ever because of Opera’s good memory management.

Firefox

FirefoxSince I become full time blogger, I often open a lot websites at the same time. I found that the more tabs you open, the more memory used by Firefox. It is common that Firefox take up more than 100MB system memory. When the system not enough memory, the program will response very slow, few seconds lags (it does not crash, anyway).

Camino

CaminoI tried Camino, the Mac browser based on Mozilla. Camino is a good mac browser, it is slightly faster than Firefox but does not support Firefox extensions. However, since Camino is based on Mozilla Gecko, it has the same memory management problem, too.

Safari

SafariSafari is Mac OS X default web browser. It is simple and fast. Safari is based on Konqueror code. Safari use less memory than Firefox and Camino, but the memory used can also jump up a lot as you increase the number of websites.

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer logoThe only web browser that does not support tab browsing (IE6). Since I am on Mac now, I cannot test the Windows Internet Explorer. From my past experience, IE also used up a lot memory.

Opera

Opera logoOpera has amazing memory management. I open twenty websites in Opera tabs but the memory still keep under 50MB, only few MB increased from initial start up. Though there are a lot websites opened at the same time, but Opera still has very good response time. In fact, it makes no different whether you open one website or twenty websites. Great!

My two cents

Before Firefox improve its memory management (hopefully in 1.5 final?), I think I will load the web pages in Opera but blog in Firefox (reasons).

Frankly, I don’t mind to pay for my “dream web browser”. :)

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  • http://andrew.blogasian.com/ andrew

    If you install MSN toolbar, you can use Tab Browsing in IE6, but then again…I’ve given up all my hopes on IE…lol.

  • http://andrew.blogasian.com andrew

    If you install MSN toolbar, you can use Tab Browsing in IE6, but then again…I’ve given up all my hopes on IE…lol.

  • http://duller.blogspot.com/ WTJ

    sometimes ff is really slow.. but at least better than IE

  • http://duller.blogspot.com WTJ

    sometimes ff is really slow.. but at least better than IE

  • http://jogalong.blogspot.com/ lucia

    if opera has amazing memory management, then perhaps it’s time for me to switch to opera from firefox, because my computer has low memory. but then again reading why you cannot switch to opera, the point about cannot right click and copy link location, that is no good as i use that a lot of times.

    so… *confused* one hand want to switch to opera, one hand don’t want. and i had been having problems with firefox lately too. as i commented in sapiensbryan’s blog, sometimes firefox will close by itself all of a sudden in the middle of surfing! weird!

  • http://jogalong.blogspot.com lucia

    if opera has amazing memory management, then perhaps it’s time for me to switch to opera from firefox, because my computer has low memory. but then again reading why you cannot switch to opera, the point about cannot right click and copy link location, that is no good as i use that a lot of times.

    so… *confused* one hand want to switch to opera, one hand don’t want. and i had been having problems with firefox lately too. as i commented in sapiensbryan’s blog, sometimes firefox will close by itself all of a sudden in the middle of surfing! weird!

  • http://www.sarawho.com/ boringest

    try to download opera tools as well which is something like adblock on firefox…

    also, you can right-click and copy link location too in Opera, wonder why your version’s different from mine…

    try going here for more info about customising Opera for yourself:

    http://nontroppo.org/wiki/Opera

    http://operalover.tntluoma.com/8/

  • http://www.sarawho.com boringest

    try to download opera tools as well which is something like adblock on firefox…

    also, you can right-click and copy link location too in Opera, wonder why your version’s different from mine…

    try going here for more info about customising Opera for yourself:

    http://nontroppo.org/wiki/Opera

    http://operalover.tntluoma.com/8/

  • http://havuk.tk/ havuk

    we are in the same boat, lcf. i blog in firefox (great blogger support) but surf 90% of the time with opera.

  • http://havuk.tk havuk

    we are in the same boat, lcf. i blog in firefox (great blogger support) but surf 90% of the time with opera.

  • Mike

    The reason i like firefox is because it’s EASILY flexible, extendable, configureble, usable, but the thing is that it uses a LOT of memory (once reached 1GB of memory consumption).

    Opera is very fast, but lacks all the features i mentioned for firefox above. It doesn’t have excellent extensions like superdragngo, html tidy, tab plus mix etc. It’s not easily customizable in various aspects (mouse gesture, additional tab functions, etc)

  • Mike

    The reason i like firefox is because it’s EASILY flexible, extendable, configureble, usable, but the thing is that it uses a LOT of memory (once reached 1GB of memory consumption).

    Opera is very fast, but lacks all the features i mentioned for firefox above. It doesn’t have excellent extensions like superdragngo, html tidy, tab plus mix etc. It’s not easily customizable in various aspects (mouse gesture, additional tab functions, etc)

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