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I thought Waterfox was supposed to run better than Firefox
I mean, I have a 64-bit Windows system and Waterfox is a natively 64-bit program, while Firefox is 32-bit.
Yet, just after starting up both programs, Firefox (version 12) is using less RAM than Waterfox (version 18).
Maybe "better" was supposed to mean "faster" rather than "using less memory"? Or maybe it's because Waterfox is a later version that has more features and thus runs more intensely?
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I could go into why this occurs but a 64 bit program will tend to use more ram than a 32 bit version of the same program. In return a 64 bit program should be faster and will be able to use more than 2 gb of memory with out any hacks. Looking at the webpage for it, it looks like they have done some speed optimizations on the firefox code base for speed which also could account for the memory increase.
What?
^ A fork of Firefox
Also I would like to try out Waterfox but it likes to crash way too often on my machine.