Hi Diane,
"*Chrome is a browser, like Firefox, only, I believe, uses less resources."
Don't count on it. Both Firefox and Chrome are resource hogs and this issue
is well known to exist for both.
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/High%20memory%20usage
http://www.pingnuts.com/fix-for-firefox-high-memory-usage-issue/
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak
Both are multi-threaded browsers ,but Chrome even more so than Firefox.
It makes it fast ,but only if you have the memory (RAM) to support this hoggish behavior.
Check Task Manager and see how many processes they have running.
Both also use (in my view) excessive caching ,resulting in high memory usage.
Readings to almost 1 GB are not unusual.
Minimizing the browser and then restoring it ,will bring mem use down.
(but it will creep up again.)
So does using fewer add-ons and fewer open tabs.
Opera behaves a bit better in that regard.
Peter E.
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From: "Katz"
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*Chrome is a browser, like Firefox, only, I believe, uses less resources.
I've used Firefox with Gmail for a long time and really like it. I'm also
using Win7.
Diane
*
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Miriam Glickman <
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> Will Chrome work with Firefox 10?
>
> Thanks so much to everyone for their helpful advice. It's so helpful.
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> You have set Chrome as your default browser. This probably happened when
> you
> installed it. Open IE from the program menu and it should ask if you want
> it
> to be the default. As an aside, Chrome is a far superior browser, IMHO.
>
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