[shenberry]

Good day I am running a Celeron ® CPU 2.70GHz with 2.69GHz, 1 GB RAMI currently have IE7 beta, Opera 9 and Firefox, They all have tabbed browsing and take a different toll on my system. I know I can't get rid of internet explorer, but which one takes or any other browser for the matter uses the less power to run is my question. I have the same links in each browser and IE brings my CPU usage to 100%, but only uses 25,845 while explore goes up to 125,864. Firefox is using 164,824k in my mem usage; Opera is at 85,996 and constantly rising. I am not asking which one is the best browser I am more concerned with, which one is lighter to run. Before I installed this massive MacAfee AIO suite my commit charge was a little over 200M / 2445M with only explore and other system programs running. Now with the 3 browsers and MacAfee with the system application running at the same time, I am now at 644M / 2445M is there a complete security package preferable form one company that takes less power to run than this.I know these questions might have been asked before so if you know of a link that could help me would also be appreciated.

[TheNameless]

Opera uses less memory on average. Firefox is known to eat up memory if kept up for a long amount of time.

[AuroraDizon]

I don't see how tabbed browsing eats up more memory. Anyway, here is some information.Open firefox in new windows instead of new tabs:[quote]Open external links in new windows or tabs If another program wants to display a web page in the default browser, Firefox will reuse an existing window by default, which means that it will navigate from a page you might be reading. To stop this, Go to Tools > Options... (Edit > Preferences... under Linux and Mac OS X), select Advanced and click on Tabbed Browsing. Under "Open links from other applications in:", you can choose the alternative you prefer.[/qupte]... or mabey you could downgrade back to IE 5?http://www.browzar.com/ < I saw this in one of the Pc World articals. Its basically used for not leaving footprints on your cmoputer of where you have been. I only used it briefly but, I doubt it if has tabbed browsing, although I may be wrong. It seemed like a rather small, only alternative at times webbrowser. Although you can try it if you wish.Heres a petition online if you wish to sign it to try to get microsoft to add an option to disable tabbed browsing in ie 7: http://www.petitiono...b/petition.html