From edc0c347e050419d8968f71c3df691460e3c300e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gorhill Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 06:06:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Contributed memory usage: benchmarks over time (markdown) --- Contributed memory usage: benchmarks over time.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Contributed memory usage: benchmarks over time.md b/Contributed memory usage: benchmarks over time.md index 7b79f31..cd69607 100644 --- a/Contributed memory usage: benchmarks over time.md +++ b/Contributed memory usage: benchmarks over time.md @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -Just a place for me to keep track of contributed memory to web pages over time. Using [Acid Test 3](http://acid3.acidtests.org/), a very simple web page, with embedded `iframes`. Web page was opened in a new tab for each extension (important). +Just a place for me to keep track of contributed memory to web pages over time. I consider the contributed memory to web pages to be more important than the own memory footprint. Unfortunately it is not possible for a user to see how much overhead an extension contributes to a web page, without running a benchmark like the one here. + +Using [Acid Test 3](http://acid3.acidtests.org/), a rather simple web page, with embedded `iframes`. Web page was opened in a new tab for each extension (important), after a browser restart. Each extension tested alone, with no other extension enabled. Browser left on idle for more than 1 minute to ensure web page memory was garbage collected.