I dare anyone to open 30 tabs of image pages or flash pages

[Leros]

I was able to open and play 30 tabs of YouTube videos in Chrome and IE9, no problems.

 

[Leros]

Well, there's this one which will definately kill IE8:
http://www.newdream.net/crash/js2.html

Chrome just stops running the script.

Chrome crashed in about 20 seconds.

It ran at least 10x faster on IE9. However, once RAM usage got up to about 1GB, it stopped rendering on the screen. Nonetheless, IE9 did not crash or lock up.

 

[an_89]

With their current default web browser. Bet it will be nearly unresponsive even on fast hardware (core i7 965, 12GB of RAM, gtx 480) for a few seconds or minutes on most browsers.

No problem with Opera, its quite a solid browser.
But I guess it mainly depends on what are you trying to open, I mean, parsing 30 well written html pages is quite simple for any decent browser, while 30 pages with a lot of active content, possibly badly written, would bring more than some problem to anyone.

 

[zagood]

33 image search pages, 7 youtube videos (all running), and this one.



No problems in chrome.

I am, however, eating 3.1GB of RAM for lunch.

 

[biostud]

Chrome crashed in about 20 seconds.

It ran at least 10x faster on IE9. However, once RAM usage got up to about 1GB, it stopped rendering on the screen. Nonetheless, IE9 did not crash or lock up.

ff just finished ending up using ~380mb of ram, no crash

 

[WelshBloke]

ff just finished ending up using ~380mb of ram, no crash

What version of FF? Mine does not like it at all, IE9 handles it way better.

 

[Leros]

ff just finished ending up using ~380mb of ram, no crash

It should use more and more RAM as time goes on. Sounds like Firefox wasn't processing the script anymore once you hit 380MB of RAM.

 

[fire400]

server level QOS for the network part. for the hard drive, SSD or fib. optic drive on good RAID stripe - and 30 flashed windows will be nothing.