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IE8 Beta 2 Hogs Memory
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Posted by Donster on: 2008-09-02 15:28:56 392
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'IE fatter than Windows XP,' uses twice as much RAM as Firefox in browsing tests
By Gregg Keizer @ ComputerWorld
Microsoft Corp.'s latest beta version of Internet Explorer 8 requires more than double the system memory of its main rival, Mozilla Corp.'s 'Firefox', and spawns nearly six times the number of processor threads, a performance researcher said today.
IE8 Beta 2 also consumes 52% more memory than IE7 and uses almost three times as many threads, said Craig Barth, chief technology officer at Devil Mountain Software Inc., a Florida-based maker of PC performance testing software.
"IE8 is epically porcine," said Barth. "Microsoft has gone to epic levels of bloat."
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