Re: iceweasel vs google-chrome

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 07/22/2010 08:53 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu July 22 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > No, but I in these modern Web 2.0 times, web pages are much busier
> > and thus burn more CPU (all the same CPU!), thus making each tab
> > time slice with all the others.
>
> yeah, I do notice where some tabs have the little spinning thingie up top, and
> I will probably X those when I see it.. like weather sites that regenerate
> every X minutes, those always eat more CPU..

With Forecastfox why do you need to go to weather pages?

> > Presumably you've got ABP and Flashblock installed, which will
> > noticeably ameliorate the load of IW.
> hm, don't see Flashblock, but I do have:
> ABP
> BetterPrivacy
> downloadhelper
> Forecastfox
> greasemonkey
> Noscript

I used to have Nosceript, but wound up having to whitelist 
everything.  So, I uninstalled it.

> Moonlight
> OverBiteFF
> User Agent Switcher
> whatwouldjesusdownload
>
> > Also, running v3.6.4 (with
> > it's out-of-process plugins feature) from Experimental (but I do see
> > where it now has the brand new v3.6.7) also greatly helps of
> > multi-core systems.
> I do have a multi-core and atop is showing:
> idle: 154%
> idle: 79%
> idle:75%
>
> chrome 16%
> Xorg 16%
>
> IW 3.0.6

Running Stable/Lenny?

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