My main PC died so now i am forced to use my shitty ass laptop for everything. (hard drive failure) When i try to use that laptop in Google Chrome ANYTHING with fancy animations, flash things or videos, it lags, even on low quality. No i dont have slow internet 25+mb/s. The specs are horrible. Hewlett-Packard (egh ik) Pavillion g6 6.00gb DDr3 RAM AMD E2-APU 320mb Windows 8.1 Im not strapped for cash and right now i dont have enough money for Windows 7 and a new hard drive. So my situation is no youtube, twitch etc etc.
windows 7 is better that 8.1 Firefox suck chrome is better (mostly) - - - Updated - - - its most likey the cpu
1. I also hate the new start screen, but Windows 8 is undeniably faster than 7. It's the very base of optimisation, less background processes = less CPU load. This gives more CPU headroom and makes everything faster. 2. Firefox takes longer to start up, but browsing is significantly faster than Chrome. Plus there's a lot more addons and you can completely customise the UI, while Chrome lets you do... Nothing. Plus Google decided it was a good idea to have an individual process for every tab, addon, and applet running. Sure, it's safer than just using threads, but it's terrible for slow PCs. And if that's not enough, Chrome screws up pretty much every download larger than 2GB, stopping at 800MB or so. Firefox doesn't, neither does Internet Explorer. Chrome just doesn't like downloading large files. So no, firefox doesn't suck. It's actually the best browser around. - - - Updated - - - OT: I just looked up the CPU, it's absolute rubbish. Try Firefox, it's better optimised and should run much better on a low power CPU. Just try not to open too many tabs at once or you'll have a big RAM hog. You should be fine with 6GB though. I'm just wondering what went through the mind of whoever created that laptop. 6GB of RAM and that crap CPU is horribly unbalanced, it could have 3GB or even 2 and a much better CPU.
Lol, Firefox good, your hilarious, ram hog is what that crap is, 2gb for 1 tab is buckshot, ive had chrome download 3gb files and it gave me consistent speeds the entire time, without a single failure, no idea what your talking about there, chrome has plenty of customization, including the ui, so once again no idea where you got that from, my laptop has worse specs then op, runs chrome no problem or lag, once again, no idea where you got bad optimization from, firefox most certainly does not load pages faster then chrome (faster then ie though, so ill give it that) And no, I dont have any add-ons or anything on firefox, so thats not it either, firefox is just a in case of chrome not working but dont like internet explorer because its even worse ram hogging browser Sent from the 3rd galaxy from the talks of tapping
How much RAM the browser uses depends on the website you're loading. And no, chrome has no customisation at all. You can use themes, but you can't move things around like you can in Firefox. As for downloads, it's probably my shit connection. But Firefox works fine, while Chrome fucks shit up. And yes, Firefox does load faster than Chrome. Mozilla screws up badly at times (Firefox 20), but since 30 it's been the fastest browser around. Development tools are much better too.
Doesn't matter what website, Firefox always uses 2gb of ram for me, period, even the about:blank page Lol no it doesnt, firefox takes ages to load any page, chrome is done loading everything as soon as I hit enter Ill give them development tools as well, they are extremely well done Firefox isnt a bad browser, but definitely not the best Sent from the 3rd galaxy from the talks of tapping
Which Firefox version? 20-29 were absolutely terrible, 30 fixed everything. I did several tests and it's much faster. It does take ages to start though, but I don't really mind that. As for the memory leaks, they were also a v20-29 problem fixed in 30. If you're running an old version, update. If you're running 30-32, try a reinstall, it might be broken.
I always let firefox auto update, so its whatever the latest version is Sent from the 3rd galaxy from the talks of tapping
Firefox 32 on windows 8.1 on both my machines. Consistently slower page loading, up to 50%. Consistently worse memory usage with the same selection of tabs open. CPU usage, no discernable difference. No hardware GPU acceleration I could find either. Threads don't add much overhead for slow CPUs as each one is low priority. If anything, firefoxes single threaded environment has been exploited for malicious intentions before plus if 1 browser tab crashes in Firefox the entire browser crashes, chrome does not, just that 1 tab crashes. So. Consistently slower, ram hogging, less secure and less resistant to crashes. Yep. Firefox is *much* better... Hell, last html5 compliance test I ran had it lagging behind chrome too.
Huh. I've never seen you around these forums before.. Anyway, I used to use Firefox all the time, but Chrome got better so now I pretty much only use Chrome.
Actually I wrote that on phone, its really really annoying to use periods on a tiny keyboard Sent from the 3rd galaxy from the talks of tapping
Commas don't seem to pose a challenge to you. -- Aside from the occasional crashes, freezes, and unkillable processes that make restarting Chrome impossible without a reboot, the Canary channel is fantastic and runs nicely on my i5 540m HP.
reply in bold only thing i've ever had become an unkillable process is java after running minecraft for a while, but it doesn't happen near as often as it used to
Task manager recognises chrome as being 32 bit. Would it help running the 64 bit (my machine is 64 bit) if possible?
