Browsers in Linux: They own your CPU (and so so in Windows and Mac, too)

“I can edit images all day long in the GIMP and not tap out my
CPU or RAM like I do when using Firefox to hit all the Web pages
and software-as-a-service type sites (heavy, heavy Javascript) to
get my work done.

“And this is in Linux, specifically Ubuntu at present. I’ve run
into the same problem in Windows. You start with Firefox or
Internet Explorer, and before too long your machine is running like
crap.

“I spent a bit of time today running most of the browser I have
on my Ubuntu 9.04 system, most of which are based on the Gecko
engine (Firefox, Epiphany, Galeon), one of which is not
(Opera).”

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