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is it true that Chromium uses more cpu than firefox?

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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...

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answered 2 Years ago berlorful · Accepted 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"

We use the Internet's Top 40 Web sites (according to Quantcast) for our memory and page load reliability testing. Unlike our startup and page load times, this test uses live sites; the test sites are not hosted on our local Web server.

Chrome's memory usage is measured through its about:memory flag, while the other browsers are measured with the Windows Task Manager/Ubuntu System Monitor. Each browser is opened with the Google homepage as the only tab. Memory usage is recorded, and then the additional 39 tabs are loaded. Once all tabs report as loaded, we inspect each page for broken elements and reload any pages that have not opened properly before recording the 40-tab memory usage.

Next we close all tabs except the original one containing Google's homepage and re-record the memory totals. Finally, we wait two minutes and record the final memory usage figure.

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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

Overall, Internet Explorer and Chrome are the winners during periods of light usage. They also seem to manage memory best. Safari and Firefox shine more prominently during heavy loads. Chrome and IE9, however, are hogs when it comes to heavy use, and Opera for Linux demonstrates poor management.

My opinion:

Stick with the browser you -like- and works for your.