do multiple browsers cause the system to slow down?

[yuth55]

When i am testing my webpage it is helpful to have different kind of brower. But does it hoax down system performence when you have five different kind of brower install.

[lordy]

you need at most two or three. IE, firefox and opera, what are you using.


Also, on system performance, Firefox generally uses more RAm as it caches alot, but i dont think your system will slow too much unless your page is content heavy

[deuce5]

it will if you are running all five at once and you dont have a powerful enough computer. i have four on mine and when i run the four it slows a little. but i only have 1gb of ram on a older dell

[bizzard]

Surely the system will be slow as the number of processes are high. But you feel it only if the sytem has a slow speed processor and a low memory.

But for a web designer, its a necessary to check cross browser performance of the web pages.

[naives]

I think it doesn't matter how much browsers you have. It will only effect your speed only if your system is too old and have 20 Gb of hdd and 64 Mb ram and damm old 833mhz processor etc. It does not matter if you are using 2gb of ram and all.

[joseph0829]

i'd rather using firefox it is more faster now than the previous versions of 2.x.x, it also loads faster than IE and safari since im using Mac OS 10.5.4 now.

[snoop1990]

For testing your website I suggest:

Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershots

They do the browser testing for me and it might take 20 minutes or so but they have a lot more browsers and systems than you can test at home.

[.Ghost]

On the Windows computer, I have Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE is installed by default (obviously) and it isn't slow at all .

[.Ghost]

On the Windows computer, I have Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE is installed by default (obviously) and it isn't slow at all .

[wuggles]

They don't slow down my computer at the slightest bit, But if you run them at the same time then depending on the ram that you have it may slow it down a bit, or a lot.