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>I'd really love to see some browser comparison stats that go in-depth on this. Basically the only numbers

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/internet-explorer-10-chr... In the 40 tab test, Chrome used 1619MB while FF only used 872MB.

This memory bloat is why I switched back to Firefox. After reading this article I fired up Chrome and it loaded about 20 tabs, then a message popped up: Close programs to prevent information loss. Your computer is low on memory.

Looking at the old browser comparisons on Toms, I can see that Chrome's memory has ballooned from 991MB in Chrome 13 to 1619MB in Chrome 23. This is a real problem. I wish Google would return to it's roots of making a lean responsive browser.

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You should try Opera as well, it's is the only browser that runs smoothly with many tabs, every other browsers fails with 25+ tabs when it comes to speed and stability. ATM I'm running 50+ tabs with 1.5 GB RAM usage. I want my browser to be open all the time and run smoothly no matter how many tabs I have open, so it can use all the memory it needs, RAM is cheap, 16GB have to be filled with something.

I do like Opera because you can switch tab to the left natively. But where are my Firefox shortcuts ?

Ctrl + 1,2,3... let's switch between tabs. Do you know the equivalent? I'm going to try using it for a while if you say you can run that much tabs and it still runs smoothly. I usually have 40+ tabs open at all times.

Yes, having the tabbar on the left is amazing in Opera, esp. with a 16:9 display. I've uploaded a screenshot for you[1] to show you my current tab list. They're grouped into tasks I'm working on atm. On the left the groups are expanded, on the right minimized.

CTRL+# are reserved for websites stored in SpeedDial. But maybe [2] helps you. I doubt that any experienced Opera user would require such a feature, because the more fluent you become with the UI the more often you swap tabs around. Instead I stored sites into the SpeedDial that I visit regularly, e.g. CTRL+7 is HN :)

[1] http://i.imgur.com/Z55rPDh.png [2] http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/go-to-a-specific-tab-using-ke...

That's a lot of tab! That's how we're supposed to browse the web hehe. As for the shortcut replacings Firefox's Ctrl+# it seems to be Alt+w+#. Thanks for the tips.

We're talking about a couple of hundred megabytes in a world where RAM is so cheap that it's easy for anyone to upgrade. Why does it even matter?

1. Notebook RAM is often impossible to upgrade.

2. While a couple of hundred megabytes is usually a small portion of the total RAM, it could be a critical share of the free RAM, and this is what matters.

600 and 700 megs != 200 megs.

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