I've asked this before, I just can't seem to find the thread in the
archives. 

I had been under the assumption that firefox is a lightweight browser,
where mozilla is an entire suite of Internet apps (mail, browser, chat,
etc...).

I want to focus on "lightweight". Does this refer to the resources
firefox uses? I remember being told firefox has a smaller memory
footprint than mozilla, however, my findings show the opposite. 

Versions are (deb packages):
Mozilla - 1.6-5
Firefox - 1.0-4

Here's what I did:
Only firefox open, single tab, simple html page displayed from my local
apache installation.
`pmap -d pid_for_firefox-bin`
Final line of output reads:
mapped: 83516K    writeable/private: 52808K    shared: 768K

Then, with only mozilla open, single tab, same page.
`pmap -d pid_for_mozilla-bin`
Final line of output reads:
mapped: 78656K    writeable/private: 50440K    shared: 768K

Mozilla has less mapped as well as less private memory usage.

So the questions are:
Is my testing methodology flawed?
Is my original understanding of firefox incorrect?

I'd appreciate any clarification I can get.

Thx,
Bart


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