Opera and Firefox > IE? Not for webgames!

[ShiningClefairy]

I noticed my memory usage for my browsers skyrocketing when playing online games. While playing the same Shockwave game online, here is what I found:
http://img157.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shockwavebrowser0nx.png

As you can see, IE uses up less RAM than Opera, less than half, actually.

My point? No browser is universally perfect. Switch between 2 or 3. Even IE has advantages.

 

[Eileen]

This is because a plugin is used which causes it to use more memory than activex, but IE6 has it's disavantages.... IE7, although beta seems to be a bit more secure than IE6....

heh

 

[Alchemist]

Really people. Is you're computer going to run any slower? Think about it. Most people have at least a 1 gigabyte, so why do you care about a little bit of ram that won't slow down you're computer?

 

[Eileen]

Opera seems to run faster on my computer instead Firefox and IE 7. IE 7 loads page fast although it's a beta. It doesn't matter since I have 1 GB of RAM.

 

[Eileen]

By a few seconds... but does it really matter... =p

 

[ShiningClefairy]

Really people. Is you're computer going to run any slower? Think about it. Most people have at least a 1 gigabyte, so why do you care about a little bit of ram that won't slow down you're computer?

That's beside the point. Flash games actually lag on Firefox, where they go perfect speed on IE for me. I don't know if I've done something wrong, but it also runs full speed on IE on my school's inferior PC's.

 

[Alchemist]

Nope. I've tried all the browsers I have, even on my virtual machine, and they all run flash fine.

 

[myuusmeow]

If you configure it right, Firefox is spectacular.

I can't use Opera because it uses like half my memory. (A browser using 512MB of RAM?!). IE is to easy to exploit, even with a firewall.