Hi I was a firefox user but I switched to Chromium a while ago and I feel like Chrome uses uses more cpu browsing the web than firefox…
I have this psensor app installed on my ubuntu 12.10 which I constantly check and I can tell I feel like FF is better for the sake of my laptop because I spend a lot of time browsing the web. even though I disabled loading flash and plugins while browsing the web but I still feel like chromium is overusing the cpu…`
for the record I don't have any heavy plugins so it's not the plugins which wastes cpu…
I heard that chromium is not officially supported that's why it may have a poor performance compared to firefox although I get every available chromium update…
should I switch back to FF? I'm hooked with chromeuim deeply ,that won't be near anything easy…
Best Answer
Chromium will use more memory then Firefox as the amount of tabs goes up (this is by design).
While running Chromium press Shift+ESC to bring up the chromium task manager. Click the 'Stats for Nerds' button and see which process in Chrome is using the most memory. You can use this to check what memory is used.
A few graphs from Tom's hardware "Web Browser Grand Prix 9: Chrome 17, Firefox 10, And Ubuntu"
This test is from 2012 but the numbers still seem to stand. The only thing this does not cover is the usage of HTML5.
Conclusion
My opinion:
Stick with the browser you -like- and works for your.