Puffin Browser and RAM/CPU Usage

[Phoenix777]

Looking at task manager...

Is it normal for Puffin browser to use a lot of RAM (100-400 MB, which is even more than Chrome uses!)...BUT...Puffin hardly uses any CPU (it's usually around 0.40%). Do these numbers sound normal to you? Should I be concerned?

I noticed when I use Chrome it doesn't use nearly as much RAM as Puffin, however the CPU is higher than Puffin. Chrome CPU is around 10%.

 

[svim]

Every web browser is actually doing a lot of work so RAM usage and CPU usage will vary quite a bit depending on the actual online content its in the process of accessing. Different web sites contain a very wide range of things -- some are mostly text, most have lots of scripting and graphics that need to be processed before what you see on your screen shows up, so those RAM and CPU usage numbers should bounce up and down on a frequent basis.

 

[Phoenix777]

Hi, thanks for your reply. Yes and I tested the same websites for each browser and compared the results, which were stated in my original post. Just thought it was strange that Puffin (which claims to use LESS than any other browser - and various studies posted on the internet support this claim) is actually using MORE than Chrome (a known RAM/CPU hog).

 

[svim]

Were you benchmarking by viewing different web sites too? A Flash heavy site where Puffin is processing that content on its servers will still be sending you converted-from-Flash content while Chrome will either be using integrated HTML5 processing (only if that site includes both) or it will simply not be showing the same animations.

But whatever the situation, there's always a matter of marketing and actual performance. There is no browser in existence that can excel at everything and meet everybody's expectations. Use the browser. or browsers, that can do what you need them to do. If your 'gold' standard is based on processing resources that's what you should focus on. Personally I think stability and usability are more important so if it's a matter of a battery drain that's still acceptable, but then again I tend to do almost all my web browsing on a computer and only use my phone out of necessity. Your situation may likely be completely different.

 

[Phoenix777]

True. I do like Puffin a lot and it does everything I need - and it's super fast. Fastest browser I have ever used in my life...and I think I've used ALL of them. lol I had just wondered about those numbers because it seemed like it should be the opposite. Thank you for your replies!

 

[Phoenix777]

Update: Okay like now I have Puffin open with a mere two tabs but I'm not even using it at the moment... I'm using another browser so Puffin is just sitting there with two tabs stationary, no animations, no video... and it's using 209 MB of RAM. Is this normal??

 

[svim]

Android's resource management will re-allot what it needs to if you're launching and using other apps while Puffin is just a running in the background so I wouldn't worry what it's using or not using RAM-wise. You'll probably create more problems and instability if you do start trying to manually manipulate and micro-manage your phone's memory and processing, just let the operating system do what it was designed to do. Really, Android is a pretty solid OS as is, it's the carriers and phone manufacturers that brand and customize the phones they sell us that often add all kinds of glitches and other strange things.

 

[Phoenix777]

Android's resource management will re-allot what it needs to if you're launching and using other apps while Puffin is just a running in the background so I wouldn't worry what it's using or not using RAM-wise. You'll probably create more problems and instability if you do start trying to manually manipulate and micro-manage your phone's memory and processing, just let the operating system do what it was designed to do. Really, Android is a pretty solid OS as is, it's the carriers and phone manufacturers that brand and customize the phones they sell us that often add all kinds of glitches and other strange things.

Thanks so much...makes sense! Although I've always been a Mac person before I bought my Samsung tablet, I just gotta relax and learn to trust Andriod!